Scanning Text Doc.

[Joachim Backes]

On 04/12/2010 04:47 PM, Jim wrote:
> FC12/KDE/X86_64
>
> Having problems of saving a Scanned Text Doc.
>
> I can save the Scanned Doc as a image, jpg,png and ps and pdf but it
> won't save the scanned document as a Text file. When it's saved as a
> out.txt , it looks like a scrambled bunch of characters. It scans the
> doc and shows it is a text file, but saving it is the problem.
>
> gocr.rpm is installed

Hi Jim,

Initially, I used gocr too, but it has IMHO no good text recognition, so 
in the meantime I installed *tesseract* which has a rather good text 
recongnition.

I scan with *xsane* into .tif files, because
if I remember correctly, tesseract needs .tif files as input:

tesseract <input>.tif <output>

Kind regards

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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