On 07/08/2010 09:17 AM, Gordon wrote: ... > 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...
What you are looking for is an OCR utility/application. You don't say which linux distro you are using, so the generic: <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&q=linux+%2Bocr&btnG=Search> will get you the info. If you are using Ubuntu, try: <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&q=help.ubuntu+%2Bocr&btnG=Search> Xsane does OCR using the OCR engine of your choice (gocr is the default but you can change to tesseract etc). There is no option (that I am aware of) to scan to odt format, but the scan output can be text & then opened in OOo for editing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
