ReHi everybody: In reference to this from a previous posting:
" Xsane does OCR using the OCR engine of your choice (gocr is the default but you can change to tesseract etc). There is no option (that I am aware of) to scan to odt format, but the scan output can be text & then opened in OOo for editing." I think this is normal. Being able to OCR directly into Word is icing and more on the cake. If someone wants that kind of convenience, they might be better off to live with Micro$oft's world, unless they are willing to do or have done, some serious programming at their expense. As for Xsane, I will see if it supports either of the Fedora versions I am currently using, and if it is available on any of the repositories I use. It would be nice if it does as I use my share of OCR also. (In the interim, I hope not to suffocate in all the heat and humitity Montreal is currently undergoing. This is heavy for the kid whose 3 month old baby picture in his time was taken in his mother's arms in front of the house with4 feet of snow on either side -phew!) Cheers, Bruce M. -----Original Message----- From: NoOp [mailto:gl...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: July 8, 2010 3:17 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: Saving scanned image as ODT? On 07/08/2010 09:17 AM, Gordon wrote: ... > I think we're drifting off here! > What I am really after is this. > If I connect to the Officejet in Windows and put a document on the > scanner, there is an option to scan the document in as a Word document, > not as an image file, and the resultant file can be opened and edited > just like a normal Word document. > Now unfortunately, the Linux driver for this all-in-one machine doesn't > allow that function so I have had to install a third-party scanning > utility such as Xsane. I haven't found yet a scanning utility that will > allow the scanned image to be "saved as" an editable word-processing > document and not as an uneditable image file. > I'm wondering if any such thing actually exists in Linux... What you are looking for is an OCR utility/application. You don't say which linux distro you are using, so the generic: <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&q=linux+%2Bocr&btnG=Search> will get you the info. If you are using Ubuntu, try: <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&q=help.ubuntu+%2Bocr&btnG=Sea rch> Xsane does OCR using the OCR engine of your choice (gocr is the default but you can change to tesseract etc). There is no option (that I am aware of) to scan to odt format, but the scan output can be text & then opened in OOo for editing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
