[sane-devel] XSane and Tesseract

2010-08-05 Thread Michael CALDER
G'day Jeff, Thanks again. I suspect that your scan settings were not the same. The resolution makes a difference - aim for 300 or 400dpi. Spot on! I had just used the default and had not realised that it was at the lower resolution. I set it to the 300 in the dropdown and the results showing

[sane-devel] XSane and Tesseract

2010-08-04 Thread Mike CALDER
Thanks Jeff, Always happy to give all the options a go and I have installed gscan2pdf and rescanned my original test. Not sure whether the list will get the attachments but I assume you will. result.txt is what I obtained using tesseract from the command line having scanned just that part of a

[sane-devel] XSane and Tesseract

2010-08-04 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Hi Mike, On 4 August 2010 13:10, Mike CALDER mikecalder at optusnet.com.au wrote: DFRDB2.txt is the result that I have cut from the scan of the WHOLE letter using gscan2pdf and tesseract as the chosen ENGINE and you can see it is not as good as result.txt. I suspect that your scan settings

[sane-devel] XSane and Tesseract

2010-08-03 Thread Mike CALDER
I have been trying to setup scanning for OCR and have successfully installed XSane Image Scanner and also both tesseract-ocr and gocr for the OCR side of thinks. Gocr seems to have been the default OCR Command in the XSane setup and I have had no trouble scanning in Viewer Mode and then going

[sane-devel] XSane and Tesseract

2010-08-03 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Hi Mike, On 3 August 2010 14:42, Mike CALDER mikecalder at optusnet.com.au wrote: Now I want to know how to set up XSane - Preferences - Setup - OCR with the correct OCR Command and the other inputs to that dialog in order to use tesseract directly from the Viewer Mode. At the risk of blowing