You can try tesseract or another ocr engine without having sane working if you have an image file that you know has text in like a .tif file or so. Sane is needed to get the stuff from the paper in the scanner into an image file. Note: the current latest svn version of ocropus does not run, try a version from about two weeks ago. On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, John J. Boyer wrote: > > > Try tesseract, which is available from code.google. It seems to be > > pretty good. I don't have the URL handy but try googling for tesseract > > code.google. > > Good, I'll try it. > I guess I should get sane working first though. > > Thanks, > > -- > Daniel Dalton > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ > <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list