My husband is blind so we use Kurzweil 1000 to scan documents into a format he can access, either .doc, .rtx or mp3. If you open the .kes files you can save them in any of these formats, although I'm not sure Kurzweil 3000 has the option for mp3. Once saved they can be opened in any word processor or converted to a preferred ereader format using Calibre if you intend to use an ereader. Hope this helps.