On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> FC12/KDE/X86_64 >> >> Having problems of saving a Scanned Text Doc. >> >> I can save the Scanned Doc as a image, jpg,png and ps and pdf but it >> won't save the scanned document as a Text file. When it's saved as a >> out.txt , it looks like a scrambled bunch of characters. It scans the >> doc and shows it is a text file, but saving it is the problem. >> >> gocr.rpm is installed > > Hi Jim, > > Initially, I used gocr too, but it has IMHO no good text recognition, so in > the meantime I installed *tesseract* which has a rather good text > recongnition. > > I scan with *xsane* into .tif files, because > if I remember correctly, tesseract needs .tif files as input: > > tesseract <input>.tif <output> A program that I very much like for scanning (with interaction with tesseract) is gscan2pdf (available with yum). Paul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
