The idea would be to scan in my handwritten notes, but that would also involve mathematical graphs & symbols, which it may not cope with well. The OCR isn't as important, it would just be a nice feature. As long as I can make a digital copy of my notes easily it would do!
Simon Wears http://MunkyJunky.com On 18 August 2010 19:02, Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> wrote: > On 18/08/10 18:25, Simon Wears wrote: > > Heyhey everybody! > > > > I'm looking at investing in a scanner so I can digitise my university > > notes this coming academic year. I was wondering if anyone has a scanner > > they can recommend that works well with Ubuntu? Ideally it would be a > > tray-fed scanner, so I can put in several sheets at a time and just hit > > a nice big 'GO' button, and it would scan it all into a single PDF. > > Bonus points if it can scan both sides of the paper in one go. > > > > Also, has anyone tried any available OCR software for Ubuntu? It'd be > > great if I could scan in my notes into text, which would make them all > > searchable! > > > > Simon Wears > > http://MunkyJunky.comb > > > > Hmm, it's been a while since I looked into scanners, guess it depends > how much you want to spend. IIRC some of the higher end HP ScanJet > scanners have ADF feeder options although the scanners I've seen in the > shops tend to be basic flat bed models. > > Guess it depends on your budget, but maybe you could look at a combined > scanner/copier/printer with ADF unit (they seem to be more readily > available). One such printer I tried recently was a Lexmark (X264) > which was networked and scanned to e-mail, so basically you could scan > anything and it would convert it to a PDF (it supported colour and black > and white) and would e-mail it out. > > As far as OCR software goes, I've never tried any on Linux, last time I > tried OCR software was on Windows and I'm not sure if it's improved or > not, it certainly wasn't good enough to read handwriting. You say your > notes are in text, will they be handwritten notes or typed up? > > Rob > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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