From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bay103-dav12.bay103.hotmail.com ([65.54.174.84] helo=hotmail.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DYrzA-0002bT-00 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 16:51:16 -0400 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 19 May 2005 13:50:35 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 65.54.174.201 by BAY103-DAV12.phx.gbl with DAV; Thu, 19 May 2005 20:50:35 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.54.174.201] X-Originating-Email: [mikster4@msn.com] X-Sender: mikster4@msn.com From: "Michael Whapples" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 21:50:07 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 May 2005 20:50:35.0358 (UTC) FILETIME=[67B2FFE0:01C55CB4] Subject: Re: OT:scanning with scanimage and gocr X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:51:51 -0000 Hello, I have also had very little success with this, and recieved similar results. I have also tried ocrad and also got the same. I don't know if it is the way the image is got, or if it is the OCR software that is the problem. I would also like to know if anyone can do successful OCR. From Michael Whapples "An optimist is someone who has never had much experience" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Mann" To: Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:13 PM Subject: OT:scanning with scanimage and gocr > Hello. I realize that this is off topic for this list, but people ask all > kinds of Linux questions on this list, so I figured that it would be OK > for me to ask this. Has anybody successfully used Scanimage and Gocr to > scan and read a printed document? I was trying to do this yesterday, but > Gocr prints a little bit of the document and some garbage. As an example > of what happens, I'll tell you the steps that I go through then show you > the result. > The commands are below. > scanimage --resolution=300 >test.pnm > gocr -i test.pnm -f ASCII > Heres what I get with the document. > (PICTURE)c(PICTURE) o ? E x T I o x B u (?) (?) (PICTURE)E T I (?) l > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > t is (0x20ac)ime to plan for the 2005 con- a C(?) > ven(0x20ac)ion of the Nationa(?) Federation char > _r (?)(?)_ _ n(?)_(?)_ (?) m(?)(?)(?)n (?).nn(?) ,_,n ,,,(?)'ll > (?)11(?)(?) > r > What am I doing wrong? I'm using Linux version 2.6.11.8 and Sane version > 1.0.13. Thanks for your help. > Ryan > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >