Hello again First, thanks for the replies on the scanning woes. Unfortunately, doing OCR with OmniPage Pro X is possible only when "sacn under Classic" is checked. Plus, the little Caere app that checks the plug- in only works in Classic and Classic plug-ins. Now there is Image Capture...The preferences are not accessible in any way. Under the Menu, the command is just doing nothing. Plus there is no way to make the toolbar appear and adjust it via its preferences. Should I reinstall it? And do I do that? Are there some prefs files that could be corrupted and thrown away? And what are their name an their location? Or a web address to get some info. Thanks a milion times Germain iMac G5/1.8 mhz/512 ram Tiger 10.4.1 french