-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ned, There is scanner support in Linux with a couple of Debian packages, but I am not sure it is as accurate as the stuff for Windows yet. Scanners are supported with a package called "sane" (scanners are now easy) that gives you a command line application called "scanimage". Then the OCR part is done with a package called "gocr" (you install both gocr and gocr-doc) and that too is a command line program. So, they work, but I am not sure how well. Chuck On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:04:01AM -0700, Ned wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed debian with speakup in my classroom successfully after going through the process once with my instructor. It went so smoothly to the point of being incredible; I mean that was the first ever OS I have ever installed on my own. > > Now, you guess, I want to do the same thing here at home on my own machine, and that's where my questions start: > I have XP Pro on my 40-gig hd which is not partitioned, and I decided to buy one more hd on which I want to install Linux. That 2nd hd would be a slave, so how do I tell the debian to install itself onto that hd and to boot up from it? Is this the best solution? I could get rid of everything that is on the current hd and install Linux only, but in that case, will linux support scanner on which I depend so much? > > I need to get this done asap! > > Bytheway, is there anybody willing to sell a hardware dec talk synth? > > Many thanks in advance! > Ned > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (98% of Full) But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD7k6BXnuiIOyDVQURAvpIAJ93GPxlBE1GE5tEO9gqjC+LA7pXTwCgqe43 8rj+v48TgQV/YMmEwYG8egY= =DsEa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
