OCR on linux

[Daniel Dalton]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Mike Gorse wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>
>> Thanks, installed and looked at the man page, can this package actually 
>> read from my scanner?
>> Or must I scan an image from the scanner and then read the image in to gocr 
>> and pipe to a text file?
>
>> From what I remember from the last time I looked at it, it's a typical 
> Unix program and only does one thing. :) So you'd need to create an image 
> (probably with scanimage from sane) and then pipe it to gocr.

Oh ok. So what format must the scanned image be in and what do I do with 
gocr to extract the text?

thanks,

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