In news:[email protected], Gordon <[email protected]> typed: > On 08/07/2010 17:00, JOE Conner wrote: >> On 7/8/2010 8:49 AM, Gordon wrote: >>> Does anyone know of a Linux scanner utility that will >>> save the scanned image as odt or something capable of >>> being imported into odt? (On Windows my wife's HP >>> Officejet has a function to scan into a Word document - >>> unfortunately this function doesn't work in Linux!) >> Assuming you have the scanner drivers for your linux >> computer, if you open a blank Writer document, then >> INSERT -> PICTURE -> SCAN -> REQUEST >> >> This works for me with a windows box. >> >> Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA > > But will that be editable, like an ordinary odt document?
That depends on your scanner software and OCR software, if any. Just be sure to save the output in a format OO.o understands (text, DOS text, doc, odt, rtf, etc.). If you have OCR (optical Character Recognition) software installed, then just as with any other scan you would be able to output an image, then turn the text to edtable form of regular text, and each image to a separate image. In reality that has nothing to do with OO.o; it would be the same with any scanner supportnig the image output. Output the image, use OCR to turn it into text + images for non-text areas. Then you save that as .rtf or whatever OO.o compatible output you have, and save your odt doc. In my case: My scanner allows me to indicate which areas of the scanned paper will be text and which areas will be images in a Prevew mode. You just tell the scanner what areas to treat as text and which to treat as a graphic, then go ahead and scan, save it as a text file, word file, send it to the clipboard, whatever you wish to finish working with it. So at least in my case the real work takes place right in the Twain Scanner settinigs. I'm using an Epson Perfection flatbed scanner to scan large documents and Twain scanninig software that came with the scanner. Twain is one of the most common formats used with scanners. That's what allows you to outliine an area on the scan Preview and tell the scanner whether to initerpret it as text or an image. Scan==>mark text/image/table areas===>outputs image/text file===>saves in format OO.o can read (.rtf, word's .doc, etc..) I usually save it as a Word file and then open/resave it with OO.o to an odt file. Hope I've made some sort of sense - looking back at what I've said, it seems clumsy. HTH, Twayne` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
