Ubuntu also comes with XSane which works very well with orca...thoiugh I am
trying to get it to scan documents. when I first scanned the text I had to
click translate or convert I can't remember. It never worked right thoiught
for me though I know it can be done.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Shang" <Geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:35 AM
Subject: Re: ubuntu linux
Josh wrote:
How do I burn the ubuntu cd?
This will depend on what CD burning program you have. You will need it to
be able to accept an ISO9660 CD image.
Is there an OCR program for ubuntu so i can scan and read documents using
my scanner to scan printed materials?
There are two components - the scanning engine and the OCR software. The
scanning engine is called Sane. You can find out about it at
www.sane-project.org
There are a few open source OCR packages. One is called Gocr and has been
around for some time. It's accuracy is not mind-numbing, but it is
improving and has been around for awhile. It's at jocr.sourceforge.net
I found a good article reviewing several free offerings. It's at
http://groundstate.ca/ocr
There is also a commercial package called OCR Shop. This has been around
for awhile and I know a number of people who have used it. I was a little
surprised to not find this one mentioned in the review. It's at
www.vividata.com
Finally, I should point out that LInux in general is not a nice cozy
environment like Windows. It will be difficult to get some things to
work, and much will require editing configuration files in a text editor
rather than using nice preferences dialog boxes. If you're not prepared
to do a lot of reading and getting your hands dirty, Linux is not for you.
Also, people tend to be more willing to help if you can demonstrate that
you've already tried to find the answers for yourself. MOst of them had
to do this and expect you to at least try to do the same. If you don't
want to do this, don't expect that your questions will continue to be
answered. People will eventually get sick of answering your questions and
just ignore them.
Geoff.
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