[sane-devel] scanimage / tesseract interoperability

[Simon Matter]

> Tesseract is an open source OCR program. It can already
> produce searchable PDF and will soon support streaming.
> It would be fun to support something like this:
>
>    scanimage --batch | tesseract - - pdf > searchable.pdf
>
> To make this work nicely, scanimage would need to
> print the name of each file to stdout after it is written.
>
> Thoughts?

Hi,

We had a different requirement for batch processing and added a
--batch-script option to our SANE build. Maybe it could be useful for you,
patch is attached.

Regards,
Simon
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