Hello Chuck and everyone on the list, The gocr and a couple of other packages for ocr under linux are not very accurate. However, there is a very good package from Vividata for ocr under linux. If you are interested, the info and software are available on: ftp.linux-speakup.org/pub/linux/goodies/ in two files called xtrclilite*. This is a commercial package from Vividata. They have very kindly provided a few of us in the speakup community license keys at no charge while they are determining a method a fair pricing for blind users. You will need the sane package installed and working with your scanner. Check out the package on linux-speakup.org. If you are interested in this ocr software, please contact me and I will see if Vividata will still provide license keys for us. --terry > > > 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----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: (705) 422-0039 E-mail: terry.cudney at gmail.com Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
