Hi All, First sorry if you get this a couple of times, I thought I would just share my experiences with everyone, but if it's not wanted, I won't do this next time... Anyway, I've had great success with ocr on linux. Using the following packages: scanimage: - grab the image from the scanner - kies: Front end for the ocr and scanimage stuff - Teseract: ocr software - ocropus: ocr software I believe What I did: Install kies. next, checkout tesseract from svn and build: patch -p0 < the_attach-patch.diff ./configure make sudo make install Note: the patch is required to make it compile. Next checkout ocropus (r864) from memory. ./configure jam sudo jam install to compile/install it. Next run sudo chmod %s /location/to/scanimage (note install sane from apt) sudo scanimage -L if it finds your scanner do this: scanimage > imagefile If it scans it as an image, try the kies front end: kies_p2t Press space and wait for your document to open in lynx. To save it press p from lynx and save it in the usual way... Hopefully I didn't miss too much, and I know it's very brief. Let me know if there is interest in this subject, I'll place a howto on my website... I'm also going to (if its ok with Willem), generate a diff to improve the documentation slightly although it's pretty good at the minute, and the scanimage command he's script uses needed to be modified on my system... So is there interest in a howto for ocr on linux? Let me know if you have any questions. I would also like to thank everyone involved with all the ocr projects, and also sane/scanimage. And I would also like to thank Willem for all his great help off list! So if there are any questions about this or you would like me to write up a howto let me know... Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list