Re: Scanners and OCR

1999-04-09 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Mark Mackenzie wrote: > I intend to buy a scanner, mainly to be used for OCR of journal articles > (with some b/w pictures), hopefully for less than $AUS250 (arround $A150 > I guess) Sadly, the state of OCR under Linux is... immature at best. There currently is no usable OCR

Scanners and OCR

1999-04-09 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi all, I intend to buy a scanner, mainly to be used for OCR of journal articles (with some b/w pictures), hopefully for less than $AUS250 (arround $A150 I guess) I have had a look at http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html and the hardware howto, but the later models I am looking at do