Kurzweil1000 is used to scan, read, and do word processing, all in one. bookmarks, audio file creation, advanced reading options, easy to use for beginners, powerfull for advanced users. I highly recommend it, it's a treasure. I bairly got it, and now I hope to share it with ya guys! by default it comes with neospeech voices and eloquence. It can use any sapi5 voice if you want. it also can recognize more then english. but you need to tell it to recognize other languages in the settings. it will automatically save where you left off. you can set bookmarks, but if you exit while reading and come back you'll begin where you left off. and if it crashes it'll offer to restore files. and more...