Re: [GTALUG] CZUR scanners under Linux

On 2022-11-10 02:21, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | Is there any support for it in VueScan? I don't know VueScan. It is similar in idea to XSane. It supports a lot of (old/obsolete) scanners. I can't use XSane to scan slides on my HP G4010 because it doesn't turn on the light in the

Re: [GTALUG] CZUR scanners under Linux

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 12:25 PM Peter King via talk wrote: > > One of the ways in which OCR contributes real value is if you have a large > number of documents that are idiosyncratic in the same way ... If anyone > knows of anything open-source that works reasonably well, I'd love to hear >

Re: [GTALUG] CZUR scanners under Linux

I'm very grateful to this thread -- I was getting ready to order a CZUR scanner in the expectation that it would work reasonably well under Linux.  So much for those expectations. One of the ways in which OCR contributes real value is if you have a large number of documents that are

Re: [GTALUG] CZUR scanners under Linux

On 2022-11-14 08:40, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 10/11/2022 02.21, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Apparently the scan under MacOS (and probably under Windows) has better OCR than under Linux.  Grr. We're probably stuck with Tesseract, which — while it's much better than it

Re: [GTALUG] CZUR scanners under Linux

On 10/11/2022 02.21, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Apparently the scan under MacOS (and probably under Windows) has better OCR than under Linux. Grr. We're probably stuck with Tesseract, which — while it's much better than it used to be — is now optimized for mass "good enough"

[GTALUG] CZUR scanners under Linux

We bought a CZUR ET24 Pro. Quite a bit more expensive than other models. It claimed that it would support Linux. I installed the supplied-to-me RPM using "rpm --force". It seems to work. (I only scanned the junk on the desktop where the scanning mat