OCR on Linux: great news

[Gregory Nowak]

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I stand to be corrected, but there is no such thing as twain drivers
for GNU/Linux, those only exist under windows, and as a lot of us
know, in general, windows concepts don't apply in the GNU/Linux world.

However, there is something under GNU/Linux that does the same thing
more or less that twain does under windows, and it even sounds
similar. This is SANE which stands for scanner access now easy I
believe. I don't know the URL for it off the top of my head, though
googling for SANE should get that for you. You will also need to see
if SANE supports your scanner. I do seem to recall that Epsons are
supported, but am not sure. Also, you might run in to the scenario
that I've run into, in that my scanner is supported by the kernel, but
isn't supported by SANE, or at least it wasn't when I tried for the
last time a year ago or so, and I haven't tried it yet again since
then.

Greg


On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:29:01PM -0400, guy schlosser wrote:
> Is there somewhere to get twain drivers for my scanner for Linux?  I 
> have an Epson Perfection 1670.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Guy
> 
> 



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