On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:56:44PM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote: > What is the Web site for this software, and how much does it cost? I'm > looking for scanning and OCR software that can be used with Linux also. Hmm. You seem to have already asked this question earlier this month. If you didn't get the reply, here it is: Message-ID: <20011202015132.I15968@nntp.AegisInfoSys.com> Subject: Re: OCR In Linux References: <019401c17ad7$6bf41480$e08caad8@tds.net> In-Reply-To: <019401c17ad7$6bf41480$e08caad8@tds.net>; from John J. Boyer on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 09:16:58AM -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 01:51:32 -0500 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