Hi Steve, You should be able to get your Epson to scan using sane. Is it USB? What happens if you give the command: scanimage -L under the console in Linux? The best is to google with your scanner name and model and sane. HTH, Willem On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Steve Holmes wrote: > Is it posible to use a TWAIN style scanner with Linux? I know SANE has > been prefered but I baught a Epson scanner recently and I then > discovered that it is a TWAIN instead. Do I have any Linux options > for this scanner? I use it with DocuScan on Windows from Serotek. > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:07:06AM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote: >> Hi Hart, >> The kies package I have released has a set of scripts like you describe. >> It is called kies_p2t for kies_paper to text. >> It supports multiple OCR engines. >> Tesseract is good and cuneiform IMHO is the best, also allowing for >> decolumnization. >> For 140 euro, one can buy abbyyfinereader, a good commercial engine. >> You can get kies from: >> ftp://ftp.csir.co.za/MI/National_Accessibility_Portal/wvdwalt/kies-latest.tar.bz2 >> HTH, Willem >> >> >> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Hart Larry wrote: >> >>> Well, I would have asked this on Blinux list, but since Kirk ha >>> developed an OCR engine, I am asking here. I am on the verge of >>> having my scanner working, finally. I really don't know which of >>> the scanning engines, gocr, tesarac, or any others, have the best >>> results? But as important for me, which one, including any >>> helpful scripts will make the process simpler? When I was in >>> windows using OpenBook, it was as simple as hitting a space bar to >>> scan. >>> When I looked in google, I noticed some1 who was updating >>> cunaform, also a script called zenity, also, speedy_ocr. Maybe >>> these are not exact spellings or punctuation, but I suppose some >>> of you know what I am looking for? >>> As far as Socrates, I can still find commands which maybe did grab >>> it in the past, but where if anywhere is their a straight >>> download, which would work in Debian 2.632? >>> Also, if there are repos I should include, please >>> inform--and-thanks so much in advance >>> Hart >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > 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.
