On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 09:16:58AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > I believe that sometime ago there was a discussion of OCR packages that > would work with Linux. Now that I'm getting into Linux in a big way, I would > like to have that information, including how much these packaages cost. a quick google search turns up at least four: clara OCR: www.claraocr.org GOCR: http://altmark.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~jschulen/ocr/ a commercial OCR with a linux version: www.vividata.com a commercial OCR with a linux version: www.mentalix.com > When I boot my Redhat Linux, it says it is initializing the USB controller. > I have a USB scanner. Can't remember the name now, but is there a chance > that I could find drivers for it? try SANE (Scanning Access Now Easy): http://www.mostang.com/sane (note: site is down at this time due to @home belly-up) (note: SANE is shipped with most modern linux distributions) another quick google search turns up one possible USB scanner resource page: http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York