Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-13 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:38:04AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 01:14 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.10.0041 +0200]: > > > Search the archives for my and other's discussions about project > > > gutenbergs tests with go

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-13 Thread Mark Roach
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 01:14 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.10.0041 +0200]: > > Search the archives for my and other's discussions about project > > gutenbergs tests with gocr and other open source OCR programs. > > great pointer. I guess t

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.10.0041 +0200]: > Search the archives for my and other's discussions about project > gutenbergs tests with gocr and other open source OCR programs. great pointer. I guess the conclusion here is that gocr and clara pretty much suck and for a

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:15:28AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.09.2221 +0200]: > > Correct - if you want searchable text you need some OCR filter. > > I've used gocr with some, moderate, success, but it's by no means > > perfect. Others hav

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.09.2221 +0200]: > Correct - if you want searchable text you need some OCR filter. > I've used gocr with some, moderate, success, but it's by no means > perfect. Others have recommended clara, which is probably better > but requires too much use

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.09.1752 +0200]: > > I use an Epson SU1640 Office, which includes a document feeder and > > can be connected via either USB or SCSI. It works fine under > > debian, using the SANE backends, although

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread Jeff Smith
Another option is the HP OfficeJet 7130. I have one, it can be used either with USB or network (with card), and is one of their all-in one. Fully supported by HP on Linux (Open Source, even), both scanning and printing. Have had no problems at all with it, works great. I don't have your neat

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.09.1752 +0200]: > I use an Epson SU1640 Office, which includes a document feeder and > can be connected via either USB or SCSI. It works fine under > debian, using the SANE backends, although the one put out by epson > (the "epkowa" driver) wo

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
Hey Martin- I use an Epson SU1640 Office, which includes a document feeder and can be connected via either USB or SCSI. It works fine under debian, using the SANE backends, although the one put out by epson (the "epkowa" driver) works better than the epson one included with SANE. I wrote a simpl

document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
I am drowning in paperwork and have decided to digitalise it all. A friend of mine has a HP scanner with automatic paperfeed capable of doing 15 pages/min. I don't need quite that much performance (though I would not complain), but I need to be able to do this in Linux. Moreover, the scanned docume