Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Excuse the basic question: >> > I wish to scan a printed text so to have it in an editable text file. >> > How can I do that with `sane' and `scanimage'?
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:57:03AM -0400, Celejar wrote: >> Scanners scan to image formats. To get editable text, you need OCR >> software. Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gocr is one of a few under `apt-cache search ocr` I tried gocr and the result was quite miserable. Then I tried with MS Windows and it was almost perfect. Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software under Linux is very poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for that: unfortunately my test seems to confirm that. What do you Debian listers think? Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
