[sane-devel] OCR with Xsane?

2010-05-19 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 19 May 2010 02:32, Ralph D rdumain at hotmail.com wrote: Thanks to all for responses. I'm having a problem with the actual scanning of images using gscan2pdf, but rather than addressing that here, is there a users' group for gscan2pdf?

[sane-devel] OCR with Xsane?

2010-05-18 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Ralph D rdumain at hotmail.com wrote: I'm new to Linux, specifically Xubuntu. I've progressed in Xsane at least enough to be able to scan and perform other basic operations. I can also produce PDF files out of the scanned images. This is not OCR,

[sane-devel] OCR with Xsane?

2010-05-18 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 17 May 2010 23:58, Torfinn Ingolfsen tingox at gmail.com wrote: FWIW; I use gscan2pdf[1], which have a couple of ocr programs built in. I Ubuntu has gscan2pdf, so you just need to $ sudo apt-get install gscan2pdf This gives you tesseract and ocropus from the GUI. cuneiform support will be

[sane-devel] OCR with Xsane?

2010-05-18 Thread Ralph D
-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: Re: [sane-devel] OCR with Xsane? On 17 May 2010 23:58, Torfinn Ingolfsen tingox at gmail.com wrote: FWIW; I use gscan2pdf[1], which have a couple of ocr programs built in. I Ubuntu has gscan2pdf, so you just need to $ sudo apt-get install gscan2pdf

[sane-devel] OCR with Xsane?

2010-05-17 Thread Ralph D
I'm new to Linux, specifically Xubuntu. I've progressed in Xsane at least enough to be able to scan and perform other basic operations. I can also produce PDF files out of the scanned images. This is not OCR, however. I need to know how to get the OCR component of Xsane to work--assuming it