Henry, Thanks for the reminder. The original message may be in a Windows file, and I've switched to Linux except for PCR. I looked at the www.claraocr.org Web site and downlooaded the source code. The program is supposed to be used with x-window, but it shouild be possible to isolate the OCR routines and develop a text-mode interface. John On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Henry Yen wrote: > 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 > > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703