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felixo
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 Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:49 am Post subject: book scanning |
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I have many books which I wish to scan, I use only linux as a OS at home and school. I looked around for a cheap fast scanner which had some linux support, but I could not find any.
Has anyone here used a good scanner? |
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cyblord
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| you can always use wine or vmware as an alternative for m$... |
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kraut
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:24 am Post subject: Re: book scanning |
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| felixo wrote: | I have many books which I wish to scan, I use only linux as a OS at home and school. I looked around for a cheap fast scanner which had some linux support, but I could not find any.
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http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html
however, you might have a problem finding an OCR software that actualy works  |
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Bill Thompson
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| I have an Epson Perfection 1640SU that I picked up on Ebay for $50 (new) and it is remarkable. The claim is that it can scan at 1600dpi. I think the reviews say that it only get 1200dpi, but that is more than enough for anything I do. Works perfectly in linux with sane. |
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BitJam
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:04 pm Post subject: Re: book scanning |
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| kraut wrote: | | however, you might have a problem finding an OCR software that actualy works |
Check out Tesseract.
The site is new and Tesseract isn't in Portage yet. Here is the announcement by Google. |
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meulie
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