Scripting an OCR Scan?

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First, thanks to Karen, Dallas, and John. This is a continuing wonderful education. Now last Sunday a gentlman from our LUG wrote a short script, called ocr but as we know, its `really particular on placement. So considering Dallas suggestions of imagemagick, convert, and an item from tesseract manual, I tried editing this script, but had to remove all changes, as items stopped working. Here is an orriginal script
#!/bin/bash


ocr=$(mktemp -u /tmp/ocr-XXXX)
pnm="${ocr}.pnm"
txt="${ocr}.txt"

scanimage > "$pnm"
tesseract "$pnm" "$ocr"

cat "$txt"

rm "$pnm" "$txt"
Back again live: Since I hardly know differences among an alias and a script, I would love to incorporate your ideas. I would also find it hard2believe no1s made such a helpful script before? As you can see, so far we are just printing the live scan, but once we get much further, I would certainly want to save or append pages. I would think an interactive, prompting a user on file name and path, or maybe even batch scanning.
Thanks so much in advance
Hart

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