Hello, I have also had very little success with this, and recieved similar results. I have also tried ocrad and also got the same. I don't know if it is the way the image is got, or if it is the OCR software that is the problem. I would also like to know if anyone can do successful OCR. From Michael Whapples "An optimist is someone who has never had much experience" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Mann" <rmann@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:13 PM Subject: OT:scanning with scanimage and gocr > Hello. I realize that this is off topic for this list, but people ask all > kinds of Linux questions on this list, so I figured that it would be OK > for me to ask this. Has anybody successfully used Scanimage and Gocr to > scan and read a printed document? I was trying to do this yesterday, but > Gocr prints a little bit of the document and some garbage. As an example > of what happens, I'll tell you the steps that I go through then show you > the result. > The commands are below. > scanimage --resolution=300 >test.pnm > gocr -i test.pnm -f ASCII > Heres what I get with the document. > (PICTURE)c(PICTURE) o ? E x T I o x B u (?) (?) (PICTURE)E T I (?) l > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > t is (0x20ac)ime to plan for the 2005 con- a C(?) > ven(0x20ac)ion of the Nationa(?) Federation char > _r (?)(?)_ _ n(?)_(?)_ (?) m(?)(?)(?)n (?).nn(?) ,_,n ,,,(?)'ll > (?)11(?)(?) > r > What am I doing wrong? I'm using Linux version 2.6.11.8 and Sane version > 1.0.13. Thanks for your help. > Ryan > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
