Is there somewhere to get twain drivers for my scanner for Linux? I have an Epson Perfection 1670. Thanks, Guy At 06:15 PM 9/28/2006, you wrote: >I think I did come across this, unfortunately I don't think I managed to get >it working on my slackware box. If it is as accurate as you say, may be I >will give it another go. > >From >Michael Whapples >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net> >To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:04 PM >Subject: OCR on Linux: great news > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I just read a review on linux.com about a new open source OCR engine for > > Linux. Well, it's not exactly new, but it has recently been open > > sourced by none other than Google, HP and UNLV. According to the > > review, it's about 97.74% accurate, although it only recognizes tif files > > and doesn't yet correctly understand page layouts with more than 1 > > column. However these are planned features in future releases. This > > app is called tesseract, and can be found at > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract > > > > HTH somebody, > > Lorenzo > > - -- > > I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. > > - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFFHDjUG9IpekrhBfIRAq5PAKDFpBdtnH/47VOxAs9K0ow7HbxtjgCeOgGp > > 1ORpTF+O/MpkioCwRBLFn28= > > =Kxdp > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
