G'day Jeff, Thanks again.
> I suspect that your scan settings were not the same. The > resolution makes a difference - aim for 300 or 400dpi. Spot on! I had just used the default and had not realised that it was at the lower resolution. I set it to the 300 in the dropdown and the results showing in the lower pane were perfect with the exception of the letterhead which I never expect to get anyway. There must have been a couple of very minor errors because when I selected and saved the output in the lower pane to a *.txt file there were two occurrences of the word 'If' with a capital "I" that then appeared as 'lf' with a lower case "L" but as far as I am concerned that is as close to perfect as I have ever had. Congratulation on a great app. I have also now found the gscan2pdf-help List so will monitor that list in future. I have one more minor problem; again of no great consequence. I have tried to select ONLY the sensible text in the lower pane - this highlights OK - and then try to save the selected part only to find that the whole output in the lower pane is still saved. I have just completed searching that list for 'save selection' and 'selection' but can find no clues on how to do this. Is this possible at this stage? Thanks again for a great application. Cheers....... Mike.