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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Experience with scanners and software? Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 19:01:07 -0700 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <33C593E3.41C67EA6@star-gate.com> References: <5q1dup$kjo@idiom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Karl <karl@idiom.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44263 I use a UMAX S12 with sane-0.61 and gimp 8) sane can be used as a standalone tool or you can directly import images into gimp. http://www.azstarnet.com/~axplinux/sane/ http://www.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/~gimp/ Have fun, Amancio Karl wrote: > > What is a good scanner and software for FreeBSD 2.2.2? I'm willing > to pay for commercial software if it's actually worth it. I'm > interested primarily in text scans, but the accuracy and speed of the > OCR scanning must be better than average, for doing a professional > job.