From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail816.carrierinternetsolutions.com ([69.49.106.26] helo=mail816.megamailservers.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IdfUV-0000dN-00 for ; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:12:47 -0400 X-Authenticated-User: mvferranti.clearwire.net Received: from [192.168.123.100] (69-44-252-62.mrc.clearwire-dns.net [69.44.252.62]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail816.megamailservers.com (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l955CaVI013629 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 01:12:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4705B94E.9060902@clearwire.net> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:10:54 +0100 From: Gaijin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: OT: Printer/scanner suggestions. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:12:48 -0000 Shane envisioned: > Another lingering use for the Windows machine At least the [CENSORED] thing helped me get Linux running. That, and help from folks here and the cvale LUG. Unfortunately, it seems I've already been hacked. Looks like I'll have to do a full, scratch Slackware reinstall. Found some hidden files in my home directory that aren't even root accessible. At least I can expect Windows to be hacked, so don't care what really happens to that particular OS. It's made to be reinstalled from scratch anyway. > unfortunately. Only software I know can do this is > Kurzweil and Nuance OmniPage. However, with Google's OCR > project in developement I wouldn't be at all surprised if > something like this becomes possible under Linux at some > point. Yeah, I'm thinking that the OCR algorythms would need to include font recognition and size, and location information in the scanned image. Font size and location data should already be variables within the OCR code, and possibly even font type. I think the hard part would be in deciding whether to make the program a stand-alone project, or to modify the current OCR routines to communicate more info to stdout. Maybe in HTML format, so you could use a browser to fill in the blanks. That, or maybe postscript, as long as it's not proprietary, like Adobe's PDF scheme. Oh well. Something to while away the hours in the future, I guess. Michael