If you are going to any significant scanning, you should have Windblows available -- from what I can tell, Linux ocr is not there yet and I understand they definitely don't support twain scanners. on Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:48:51 -0500 "Thomas Ward" <tward at bright.net> wrote: > Hi, Anna. If you email me off list I'll help you get a Linux box going. > My email address is > tward at bright.net > > Some initial questions here. > > Do you have a hardware synth? > Do you plan to buy one if not? > If you plan to scan books do you have a scsi scanner? > -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com