Re: Scanning software available?

[Lawrence Chim <ychim@numbat.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

Alfons Juan i Ciscar wrote:
> 
> > that is, are there any packages that will enable one to use  a scanner
> > that is able to read in characters, or in other words, uses OCR
> > (optical character recognition) technology?
> 
> It depends on the scanner you have. I've a HPScanJet4c connected to
> a SCSI card and i'm using hpscanpbm, which is available as a standard
> Debian package. It works quite well for me.
> 

or you may pay $50 for xvscan, a program based on xv.

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Lawrence Chim	ychim@numbat.cs.rmit.edu.au