Scanning

[Jude DaShiell]

I don't know the current status of socrates is but that earlier was put 
together to help with scanning and was on the speakup website earlier.

On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, John G Heim wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:30:41
> From: John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> Subject: Re: Scanning
> 
>
> Yeah, I use the sane scanimage command too. It was in the code segment 
> and in the script I posted earlier this week. I didn't know there were 
> other tools besides sane for operating a scanner in linux.
> I did a lot of experimentation while scanning in the D&D manual. I found 
> that I got best text recognition when I scanned in the page as line art. 
> My scanner has a top resolution of 600 dots per inch. I don't know if 
> that's good or bad. It's is a really ancient scanner. Someone just gave 
> it to me because they were upgrading to Windows XP and it didn't have 
> drivers. When would that have been, 2001? But it still works great in linux.
>
>
>
> On 11/04/2015 10:08 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>> Thank you so much, Chris! I will contact you. I have tried with the lide 
> 110 and scanimage, which I think may be what I used a few years ago, but get 
> errors when I pass the image on to tesseract and just a blank file. I 
> probably am leaving something out of the command line but I would like to 
> keep trying.
>>
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