Did you install an ocr program and tell xsane to use it? Oliver On Monday 17 March 2003 02:40, STEPHEN CONSTANTINOU wrote: > Dear Group > > For the last 18 months I have been trying to make the > transition to Linux. I purchased an Epson C80 printer > and the 1650 Photo scanner as these were documented as > supported by Sane. And so they are. > > I have no difficulty scanning images, saving them etc. > > For the first time I have tried to use OCR but have run > into a problem. > I have acquired a preview, then selected the area of > text I want to scan in. Next I moved to the scanner > window and pressed Start. The image is scanned in and > a new window called Viewer appears with the text in it. > I clicked on the second button =93ABCDEF=94 and the file > dialogue window appeared offering the name/path of > =93/home/stephanos/out.txt=94 in which to save the text. I pressed OK. > > However after pressing OK nothing happened. The file > is not created and no further activity takes place. > > I was at least expecting that the words that were not > recognised would be flagged up. > > Any help appreciated > > > Stephen (Swansea, Wales, UK)
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