Re: How to acquire text so to edit it?

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Subject: Re: How to acquire text so to edit it?
From: Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:57:03 -0400
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:09:39 +0200
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:

> Excuse the basic question:
> I wish to scan a printed text so to have it in an editable text file.
> How can I do that with `sane' and `scanimage'?
> 
> Thanks for any reply,
> Rodolfo

Scanners scan to image formats.  To get editable text, you need OCR
software.

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