[sane-devel] Configuring OCR tool

[Kelly Price]

It's not compiled C/etc.  It's Perl.  I have it installed on my Gentoo
box, and if I remember Slackware, you're compiling it.

List of dependencies is on http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/ (just scroll down)

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 1:03 PM Business Kid <Business_kid at linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
> 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!
>
> gscan2pdf, eh?
> 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.
> 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.
>
>
> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 10:09 AM
> From: "Jeff" <jffry at posteo.net>
> To: sane-devel at alioth-lists.debian.net
> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Configuring OCR tool
> On 26/07/2019 16:16, Business Kid wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I did a test of GPL linux tools a few years back, and *tesseract* 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 *ABBYY* 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.
>
> I can't help you with xsane, but I can suggest another scanning tool
> that supports OCR, in particular tesseract (but I am biased, because I
> am the author):
>
> gscan2pdf
>
> Regards
>
> Jeff
>
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