[sane-devel] xsane 0.84, Epson 1650 Photo, Mandrake 8.2

Oliver Rauch oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de
Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:40:31 +0100


Did you install an ocr program and tell xsane to use it?
Oliver

On Monday 17 March 2003 02:40, STEPHEN CONSTANTINOU wrote:
> Dear Group
>
> For the last 18 months I have been trying to make the
> transition to Linux.  I purchased an Epson C80 printer
> and the 1650 Photo scanner as these were documented as
> supported by Sane.  And so they are.
>
> I have no difficulty scanning images, saving them etc.
>
> For the first time I have tried to use OCR but have run
> into a problem.
> I have acquired a preview, then selected the area of
> text I want to scan in.  Next I moved to the scanner
> window and pressed Start.  The image is scanned in and
> a new window called Viewer appears with the text in it.
> I clicked on the second button =93ABCDEF=94 and the file
> dialogue window appeared offering the name/path of
> =93/home/stephanos/out.txt=94 in which to save the text. I pressed OK.
>
> However after pressing OK nothing happened.  The file
> is not created and no further activity takes place.
>
> I was at least expecting that the words that were not
> recognised would be flagged up.
>
> Any help appreciated
>
>
> Stephen (Swansea, Wales, UK)

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