Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions of suitable applications to reseach.
On Saturday 26 March 2005 10:57, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > I can also recommend vuescan (hamrick.com) for professional > requirements. Vuescan features things like IT8 colour calibration - lack > of this is pretty much a k.o. for the professional level. It also > supports a bunch of scanners not supported by sane. It's not free > though, but it's a fraction of the price of what professional ms-windows > scanning software costs. In fact it gets very good reviews for > ms-windows too. It also gives you the same GUI for any scanner you have, > now or future. Vuescan sounds interesting and I don't mind paying for something good on any OS. I think that this perception by software houses that Linux users expect everything to be free, may inhibit their desire to port an application to Linux. It also seems to me that Linux developers are more inclined and quicker to port their applications to Windows than the other way around. > I have heard that the cheap OCR software supplied with scanners for > ms-windows is very good and gets most jobs done without too many errors. > I can believe that - OCR technology has advanced quite a bit and scanner > makers would be able to OEM basic versions of OCR software cheaply. For a two fingered typist like myself, OCR even with a few errors is useful because a spelling/grammar checking facility on the word processor can do most of the corrections, then the search and replace facility can correct repetitive errors like ; in place of i and that sort of thing. > (Like nero, though why anyone would want a Linux version of that dumbed > down shite is beyond me, esp when k3b is similar and free.) Yes, I used k3b for the first time recently and burned a CD iso very efficiently and in a no nonesense way. I thought it was quicker and better than Nero and I certainly would not need any more than k3b can provide. Woodsey
