Ron: I'm not sure who among us is using this software, if any. I do recall some discussions in the past about it. Perhaps searching the speakup list archive might help. Meanwhile, you should be aware that Kirk is in the early phase of developing an ocr package called socrates which will use sane as its back end. Also, the T.V. Raman announced ocr support in Emacspeak 15 also using sane, though there doesn't seem to be any documentation other than the source code itself for how to do ocr in Emacspeak. On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Ron Marriage wrote: > I've posted this message a couple time and haven't gotten a > response to it. > Does this mean no one used this software or they have other > solutions? > Has anyone purchased the Vividata OCR Shop > program, and if so what are your results? > I'm particularly interested in the text interface. > I'd like to get OCR working in my linux as this is the only > reason I still use windows / Openbook. If this program > works ok then I can remove windows from my computer > entirely. > > Thanks > Ron > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp