Hello! I tried gocr, too, the results are unuseable. There are some other open source ocr projects for linux, I tested some of them with results similar to gocr. There is one good ocr solution: ocrxtr from Vividata, but it is closed source, commercial and quite expensive. They once had a special price for the legally blind (about $ 100), I don't know if this is still true. You can get a test version (30 or 0 days) for free. I tried it: The quality is really good! It can control some scanners or you can write a script for scanning with scanimage and doing the ocr part with ocrxtr. Roger On Mon, 23 May 2005, Ryan Mann wrote: > Hello. I apologize if this has been asked before, but I just subscribed to > this list. Has anybody been able to successfully scan and read a printed > document with Scanimage and Gocr under Linux? If so, how? I've been trying > to use scanimage to scan the document and Gocr to turn it into text, but I get > mostly garbage. If you don't use Scanimage and Gocr, what do you use for this > purpose? Scanning documents is the main reason I need to keep Windows on my > laptop, so if there is a reliable way to scan documents under Linux, I could > do away with Windows altogether. > Thanks for your help. > > Ryan _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list