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<div>I have sane(1.0.27) & xsane(0.999) working here on my HP LaserJet MFP 130nw Multifunction printer. I wanted to use it for OCR (At which I have some commercial experience). gocr seems to be the only OCR tool; but that project seems to be dying, or dead.</div>
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<div>This query is about OCR. How do I set the ocr program & options in xsane? I would like to be able to choose tesseract, or ABBYY and pass options. I think tesseract has a 'stdout' option, which allows you to junk the original file. In commercial work, 500G disks were being swapped around regularly as they filled up and were queued for OCR.</div>
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<div>I did a test of GPL linux tools a few years back, and <strong>tesseract</strong> came out best, with a new OCR engine in Beta. I was able to scan & then edit one of my father's plays which had been typewritten for him by a novice in the 1960s. He then corrected it by hand. Having done work for a firm here 10 years back, I knew that <strong>ABBYY</strong> was probably the best (commercial) package, then only available in M$Windoze. ABBYY now have a (commercial) linux package, with a one month free trial :-D.</div>
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