You need a PBM file to use with it. If you have scanimage, you can do this. Scanimage is part of the sane package. It also helps if you can make a symbolic link from /dev/scanner to the device where your scanner is attached. My scanner is SCSI, so I use /dev/sg0. Then, type this. scanimage --resolution 300 --mode Linear > test.pbm You can then run "ocrad test.pbm | less" to pipe the output through a pager. You can also do it without creating a temporary file like this. scanimage --resolution 300 --mode Linear | ocrad | less The options to scanimage are to use Linear (which apparently means Black and White mode,) and a resolution of 300 DPI which is what most OCR programs seem to like. These options work with my scanner.
