[sane-devel] OCR with tesseract

[Jeff]

Hi Janos,

Try gscan2pdf https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-gfx/gscan2pdf

Regards

Jeff

Disclaimer - I am the author.

On 16/09/2025 09:49, janos via sane-devel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a happy, long time user of xsane, presently on a Gentoo desktop.
> Recently I tried to use OCR save, but the out-of-box setting with gocr
> does not work. As I found out, gocr has vulnerabilities, and Gentoo has
> tesseract instead.
> 
> Can xsane be set up for OCR with tesseract, and how? The Help page has
> no item for OCR.
> 
> Actually, this is no big deal, I can do command line tesseract OCR on
> the saved scan pnm image.
> 
> Janos

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: OpenPGP_signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 840 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20250918/fa6047d4/attachment.sig>