Socrates-and-An Easier OCR?

[Willem van der Walt]

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
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