[newbie] OCR software?

2005-01-21 Thread Rhein Christophe
Hello, I want to scan french text with my HP psc 1350 multi fonction device. I have Xsane installed. It works great for scanning pictures but the text reconition is bad. Is there a solution under linux? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] OCR software?

2005-01-21 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 21 January 2005 03:23 pm, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I want to scan french text with my HP psc 1350 multi fonction device. I have Xsane installed. It works great for scanning pictures but the text reconition is bad. Is there a solution under linux? Thank you Christophe Using

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-28 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 February 2004 22:17, John Richard Smith wrote: Xsane does have OCR capability. Now that I've installed GOCR it works too. so, After you have scanned the article in question and in viewer XXX scanner window there is a little tab

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 22:17, John Richard Smith wrote: Xsane does have OCR capability. Now that I've installed GOCR it works too. so, After you have scanned the article in question and in viewer XXX scanner window there is a little tab ABC/DEF to click on, and it then

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-28 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 17:23, John Richard Smith wrote: How about an entry on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/OfficeApplications, John? Anne Do you mean give a rightup of my experience ? Yes I'm no expert at all, just

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 17:23, John Richard Smith wrote: How about an entry on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/OfficeApplications, John? Anne Do you mean give a rightup of my experience ? Yes I'm no expert at all, just feeling my way along . You don't need to

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-28 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 18:51, John Richard Smith wrote: OK Anne, I've done it perhaps you can edit the layout a bit. I'm not that confortable with the editor on this site. John Done it, John. I've changed the page layout, now we're getting

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 18:51, John Richard Smith wrote: OK Anne, I've done it perhaps you can edit the layout a bit. I'm not that confortable with the editor on this site. John That is good Anne. I just didn't find the editor a familiar thing to use. Now the item scans

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 27 February 2004 10:25, John Richard Smith wrote: If I can get it to work well, I certainly would have a regular use for such a tool. John Use it with kooka on KDE if you want a gui for it. Works very nicely in combination with sane The only thing sort of unclear is that it creates

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-27 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 10:25, John Richard Smith wrote: If I can get it to work well, I certainly would have a regular use for such a tool. John Use it with kooka on KDE if you want a gui for it. Well I don't mind having one really, I don't mind at all, in fact I

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-27 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I wonder if Xsane works with OCR ? Works very nicely in combination with sane The only thing sort of unclear is that it creates it's own directory and sees only that. The folder is made in .kde/share/apps/ScanImages/ which isn't that obvious IMHO. So if you want to scan

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 27 February 2004 11:42, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, done that, but again my CL sane is near nothing. I'm not quite sure what you mean by that??? I suppose I ought to remidy that. I will have a try later. Be sure to let kooka make an (empty or not) directory first (which goes in

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-27 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:50:28 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: I wonder if Xsane works with OCR ? Ya, get that workin' so you can send me nice TXT or PDF files instead of those jpeg's of the FT ;-) Not complainin', keep 'em comin'! -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-02-27 Thread John Richard Smith
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:50:28 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: I wonder if Xsane works with OCR ? Ya, get that workin' so you can send me nice TXT or PDF files instead of those jpeg's of the FT ;-) Not complainin', keep 'em comin'! I agree, it would be

[newbie] OCR software

2004-01-21 Thread Aron Smith
Is there an OCr package that works with xsane or Gimp? -- ___ ( Let us remember that ours is a nation ) ( of lawyers and order. ) --- o ^__^ o (oo)\___ (__)\ )\/\

Re: [newbie] OCR software

2004-01-21 Thread robin
Aron Smith wrote: Is there an OCr package that works with xsane or Gimp? GOCR. Sir Robin -- People pay economists vast amounts of money in order not to have to take their advice. - Colin Dexter Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy