Cannot answer everything, but What i do is to run scanimage suid root. chmod +s scanimage worked for me. HTH, Willem On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Hi all. > > I'm hoping some of you are using tesseract and can help me with this. I was > pleasantly supprised to find that using sane (scanimage in particular) and > tesseract I actually could get some legible material. Envelopes have a lot of > extraneous stuff in the .txt file for me; bills and statements have some, and > pages from books remarkably seem to only have a few extra or wrong characters > here and there. As this is one of the few things I still do in Windows, I'm > really encouraged by this but I do have some problems. > > 1. I can only scan as root; if I try to scan as a normal user, it's claimed my > scanning device can't be found. I've googled this and can't find the answer > but is there perhaps just a group to which I need to belong to have access? > > 2. I don't see any indication that my canoscan lide 60 is actually supported > although it at least appears to work when I use it as root. I found by > googling one old email that told what to put in a file to make sure my scanner > was recognized appropriately, but the instructions talked about a file that no > longer exists since the hierarchy, at least in debian, has changed. There are > .conf files for various scanners including some Canon ones but not for mine. > Is there something I should use that's already there or something I should add > that would improve performance and make sure the scanner is calibrated > correctly or, since it does appear to be working, is this unnecessary? > > Tia. > > > -- > Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.
