OCR on linux

Daniel Dalton d.dalton at iinet.net.au
Thu Apr 24 08:56:36 UTC 2008


Hi Geoff,

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Sane is what you'll need to get the image from your scanner to use with OCR 
> software. As for OCR solutions, there are several out there.

Oh ok, so should I just find a howto for my scanner?
I have an epson.
And what format does sane need to scan the document into for the OCR 
package to be able to interpret it?

>
> One place to look to find out what there is is an article at 
> http://groundstate.ca/ocr

I'll have a look.

Thanks for your help,

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