[kwlug disc.] entry-level, linux-friendly scanner available locally?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Rick wrote:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> writes:
> > actually, staples has a sale on refurbished brother dcp-7020s.  new
> > $230, refurb $99.  so i grabbed one.  linux drivers and everything.
>
> Does the Brother DCP-7020 include an OCR package? (OCR for Linux that is)

after a scan, i selected "save as OCR - text" from the menu, at which
point sane complained about the lack of the "gocr" command.  so i
"yum" installed that package, and i now have OCR on this puppy.  not
perfectly reliable, but i'm guessing i need to tweak a few settings.
other than that, it's there.  this is turning out to be a decent
investment of $99 after all.

rday
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