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<div>All this gets me no nearer configuring Xsane. Is anybody listening there on sane-devel? Do you guys not know? I'm one step short of downloading source and grepping it!</div>
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<div>gscan2pdf, eh?</div>
<div>That sounds like a gnome thing, doesn't it? Gnome I don't remember well. I'm on Slackware64 here, and you're probably developing it under a gnome shell. I'll happily try it out and compare it, but you'll have to spoonfeed me on the dependencies. Slackwasre64 supports kde, & XFCE. I'm using xfce.</div>
<div>Could you post the output of 'ldd /path/to/gscan2pdf' please? I'll get an idea of how much hassle I'm in for. I'm hoping for a short output, not a long one.</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 10:09 AM<br/>
<b>From:</b> "Jeff" <jffry@posteo.net><br/>
<b>To:</b> sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net<br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [sane-devel] Configuring OCR tool</div>
<div name="quoted-content">On 26/07/2019 16:16, Business Kid wrote:<br/>
> I have sane(1.0.27) & xsane(0.999) working here on my HP LaserJet MFP<br/>
> 130nw Multifunction printer. I wanted to use it for OCR (At which I have<br/>
> some commercial experience). gocr seems to be the only OCR tool; but<br/>
> that project seems to be dying, or dead.<br/>
> <br/>
> This query is about OCR. How do I set the ocr program & options in<br/>
> xsane? I would like to be able to choose tesseract, or ABBYY and pass<br/>
> options. I think tesseract has a 'stdout' option, which allows you to<br/>
> junk the original file. In commercial work, 500G disks were being<br/>
> swapped around regularly as they filled up and were queued for OCR.<br/>
> <br/>
> I did a test of GPL linux tools a few years back, and *tesseract* came<br/>
> out best, with a new OCR engine in Beta. I was able to scan & then edit<br/>
> one of my father's plays which had been typewritten for him by a novice<br/>
> in the 1960s. He then corrected it by hand. Having done work for a firm<br/>
> here 10 years back, I knew that *ABBYY* was probably the best<br/>
> (commercial) package, then only available in M$Windoze. ABBYY now have<br/>
> a (commercial) linux package, with a one month free trial :-D.<br/>
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I can't help you with xsane, but I can suggest another scanning tool<br/>
that supports OCR, in particular tesseract (but I am biased, because I<br/>
am the author):<br/>
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gscan2pdf<br/>
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Regards<br/>
<br/>
Jeff<br/>
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