From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 06E881EFA9A; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:07:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from hurricane.the-brannons.com (hurricane.the-brannons.com [64.62.188.119]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E759D1EFA90 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:07:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (67-5-183-133.ptld.qwest.net [67.5.183.133]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A0D07891B for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:01:27 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Brannon To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Scanning References: <0E3E79A1-F2B3-40EF-A679-E6B165047A2D@icloud.com> <87mvut5fvx.fsf@mushroom.localdomain> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:02:21 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Cheryl Homiak's message of "Wed, 04 Nov 2015 22:08:36 -0600") Message-ID: <87y4dv1902.fsf@mushroom.localdomain> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:07:35 -0000 Cheryl Homiak writes: > Thank you so much, Chris! I will contact you. I have tried with the > lide 110 and scanimage, which I think may be what I used a few years > ago, but get errors when I pass the image on to tesseract and just a > blank file. I probably am leaving something out of the command line It's possible that you may need to specify the height and width of your scanned image. I've had to do this in the past with the Canon scanners. So the script I use for making scans passes the options -x 215mm -y 297mm along to scanimage. -- Chris