I have already used sane quite successfully to scan. It was even giving me access to the hardware buttons on my HP scanner. I think Kirk has some early work on this in a package called Socrates. Christopher Moore writes: > From: Christopher Moore <christopher.h.moore at verizon.net> > > I looked at the web page and the linux version appears to have a > command-line interface. In addition to the sdk they also have a run-time > version. When you look at the license info they mention a 60 day free > trial. Not sure of any prices, but the runtime version would undoubtedly > be cheaper than the sdk. We would probably need to use something like sane > to scan the images and pass the files into the Fine Read recognition engine. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org
