[orca-list] OCR apps

[Cheryl Homiak <chomiak charter net>]

Hi all.

I was just wondering if there might be a good scanning and ocr solution 
that works with orca that I don't know about. Scanning is just about the 
only reason I need to use Windows any more; I also use Macosx and none of 
the scanning solutions i've found there works for me. In Windows I use 
Abbyy Finereader. From the command line in linux, I have been using sane 
with scanimage 
and then tesseract. While this does work to some extent, I get a 
lot of garbage in scans plus have to keep turning the paper to try to get 
the top orientation right, something Abby of course does for me. I also 
downloaded and tried vuescan for linux but unfortunately I can't determine 
how well it would work because while I can access the preview and scan 
pages I can't seem to access  the area to set input media type or any 
other options for that matter. If anybody has either had success with 
vuescan and can tell me how to pursue this further, or has found a better 
scanning/ocr solution, I'd appreciate hearing about it. I'm using a 
canoscan lide60.

Tia.


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Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."