Hi, 2010/7/8 Gordon <[email protected]>: > On 08/07/2010 17:08, Marcello Romani wrote: > >>> >> >> When the scan is complete, you'll have an ordinary odt document with an >> image in it. >> Regardless of whether the image has been scanned or inserted by hand, it >> will be editable with the usual limitations of OOo (brighntess, >> contrast, tone, etc.), which have nothing to do with scanning of course. >> > > I think we're drifting off here! > What I am really after is this. > If I connect to the Officejet in Windows and put a document on the scanner, > there is an option to scan the document in as a Word document, not as an > image file, and the resultant file can be opened and edited just like a > normal Word document. > Now unfortunately, the Linux driver for this all-in-one machine doesn't > allow that function so I have had to install a third-party scanning utility > such as Xsane. I haven't found yet a scanning utility that will allow the > scanned image to be "saved as" an editable word-processing document and not > as an uneditable image file. > I'm wondering if any such thing actually exists in Linux...
yes, it does exist. Search for OCR functioality, for example gocr. I don't have any experience with this, so I don't know how good it is. But at least, I know, that it exists. ;) Sigrid --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
