From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 2 18:36:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7630816A41F for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:36:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF09043D45 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:36:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j82Ia6Wg008820; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:36:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B427463CC; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:36:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:36:06 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20050902183606.GA65669@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20050902030726.GA71012@thought.org> <20050902074627.GA73570@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050902074627.GA73570@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: best OCR scanner?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:36:09 -0000 --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:46:27AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:07:26PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > People, > >=20 > > I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright= =20 > > book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is Any scanner that works with SANE (http://www.sane-project.org/) scanner support framework should do. For supported hardware see: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html=20 Epson seems to have the most supported scanners. I've got an Epson Perfection 1650, which works fine. > > and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR=20 > > software in recent years. This book has few footnotes=20 > > or different typefaces, so it should make things easier. There are several free OCR programs. I've used gocr (http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ and no, that's not a typo) and ocrad (http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html) Ocrad works ok, but you'll definitely have to correct errors, depending on the quality of the pictures/scans.=20 HTH, Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDGJuWEnfvsMMhpyURAvOoAJ9/DJ0wPNs/OXgWkXZKi8hc/zohdgCfV0as JagnRiA5PJaQyjnpVcDCHWk= =263w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--