From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id CE1041EFED3; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:18:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3A261EFB0D for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:18:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4975717162 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:18:22 -0500 (EST) Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20712) id 2E32714B9A; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:18:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A78114B98 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:18:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:18:22 -0500 (EST) From: Jude DaShiell To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Scanning In-Reply-To: <563B7621.1010603@math.wisc.edu> Message-ID: References: <0E3E79A1-F2B3-40EF-A679-E6B165047A2D@icloud.com> <87mvut5fvx.fsf@mushroom.localdomain> <563B7621.1010603@math.wisc.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (NEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:18:24 -0000 I don't know the current status of socrates is but that earlier was put together to help with scanning and was on the speakup website earlier. On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, John G Heim wrote: > Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:30:41 > From: John G Heim > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: Scanning > > > Yeah, I use the sane scanimage command too. It was in the code segment > and in the script I posted earlier this week. I didn't know there were > other tools besides sane for operating a scanner in linux. > I did a lot of experimentation while scanning in the D&D manual. I found > that I got best text recognition when I scanned in the page as line art. > My scanner has a top resolution of 600 dots per inch. I don't know if > that's good or bad. It's is a really ancient scanner. Someone just gave > it to me because they were upgrading to Windows XP and it didn't have > drivers. When would that have been, 2001? But it still works great in linux. > > > > On 11/04/2015 10:08 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> 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 but I would like to > keep trying. >> > > --