OT:scanning with scanimage and gocr

[Ryan Mann]

Hello.  I realize that this is off topic for this list, but 
people ask all kinds of Linux questions on this list, so I 
figured that it would be OK for me to ask this.  Has anybody 
successfully used Scanimage and Gocr to scan and read a 
printed document?  I  was trying to do this yesterday, but 
Gocr prints a  little bit of the document and some garbage. 
As an example of what happens, I'll tell you the steps that 
I go through then show you the result.
The commands are below.
scanimage --resolution=300 >test.pnm
gocr -i test.pnm -f ASCII
Heres what I get with the document.
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t is (0x20ac)ime to plan for the 2005 con-  a C(?)
ven(0x20ac)ion of the Nationa(?) Federation  char
_r (?)(?)_ _ n(?)_(?)_ (?)  m(?)(?)(?)n (?).nn(?) ,_,n 
,,,(?)'ll  (?)11(?)(?)
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What am I doing wrong?  I'm using Linux version 2.6.11.8 and 
Sane version 1.0.13.  Thanks for your help.
Ryan