[nflug] Stand-alone scanner?

[Joe]

Cool. You are amazing. This was way too simple to think of. My scanner 
is super old, and only works on Win 98, so I haven't done any ocr in Linux.
Assuming I save the pictures of pages .... I have a couple of cheap 
digital cameras that save as jpegs.

1) Do the new, better cameras save as tiff (as an option)? (What format 
do I want them in - pnm?)
I can probably convert jpeg to tiff (or pnm, see below), but an extra 
conversion would probably degrade the image.

2) What software do I use on Linux to run a tiff file through ocr 
conversion?
I found kooka, but it seems to start at Mandrake 9.2, so maybe it will 
run on my next pc. Ditto for ocrad ad, which it uses (10.0+)

I installed gocr, but haven't tried it yet. It uses file formats I'm not 
familiar with. I'm not sure how well developed it is. I installed djpeg 
and cjpeg as shown in the examples. I also found jpegtopnm (based on 
djpeg) already on my system.

Tomorrow, I'll boot into windoze and see if I have anything already 
scanned that I can test with. If not, I'll create something.

Joe

Sam Stern wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> I have not used any of these products for almost ten years. Back then (1995
> ish) the "scanner pen" solution did not work well. By now, I would expect
> that scanner pens would have enough storage to make their use worthwhile.
> That said, google for "handheld portable scanner". OF note is this ./
> article:
>
> <http://ask.slashdot.org/apple/02/10/10/1921233.shtml?tid=107>
>
> In that article, they suggest taking high resolution (300 dpi, tiff format)
> digital photos and running ocr over them at a later point. 
>
>
> Good luck!
>
> Sam S.
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] 
>> On Behalf Of Joe
>> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 04:14 PM
>> To: NFLUG
>> Subject: [nflug] Stand-alone scanner?
>>
>> I don't know if this exists, but I'm looking for a scanner 
>> that I could 
>> take to a library, etc. and run it over text like a 
>> highlighter (one or 
>> more lines at a time) and get the image or, even better, ocr'd text 
>> stored in it for later use.  Preferably, it would be like a Walkman or 
>> Palm (I have a Tungsten E) with a wand attached to it.  It 
>> must be small 
>> and light and interface with a PC or Palm so the text could be used 
>> later.  It needs some sort of display to verify what was scanned, show 
>> memory usage, etc.
>>
>> This would really help when doing library research and just to extract 
>> highlights from a book that I no longer want to keep.
>>
>> I think I saw a wand like this years ago.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Joe
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