From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms-smtp-01-smtplb.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.5.131] helo=ms-smtp-01.tampabay.rr.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DYrOl-0001s5-00 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 16:13:39 -0400 Received: from 203.87.118.70.cfl.res.rr.com (203.87.118.70.cfl.res.rr.com [70.118.87.203]) by ms-smtp-01.tampabay.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j4JKDZEh000917 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 16:13:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 16:13:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Ryan Mann X-X-Sender: rmann@rmnet To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: 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 20:13:39 -0000 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