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.com
At a slight tangent, when we come across a sign or map we need to refer to, when on holiday , we simply photograph it. A 3 M pixel camera with a close up (macro?) focus ability and a good light source nearby produces a very readable jpeg, and a 5 Mp camera even better. It occurs to me that in addition to the method of digital capture, you will produce a lot of files, all with similar IDs. This is unlike notes which have an easier intuitive recognition I suspect. So also consider your files organisation strategy? good luck -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
