As a headsup for others, 1.1.3 from PPA solves this but seems to have some work-in-progress quirks re: using scanning backends other than libsane-perl.
In plain English this means you regain OCR but may lose access to some convenient page size definitions etc. if, say, scanimage worked more seamlessly with your scanner. [If this is a surprise, do let me know and I'll file a real bug.] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1174611 Title: tessaract ocr no longer available in gscan2pdf To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gscan2pdf/+bug/1174611/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs