[plug] simple usb doc scanner into PDF and storer for Ubuntu

[Tim]

I can give you a simple script that will scan each page then combine
them into a pdf file. It's actually a script off the net that you can
google for, I've just made a php version to use from a browser.

Ocr is a whole kettle of fish as you generally get the ocr as a text
file, not formatted like you'd want in a pdf. Not impossible, but
difficult. See things like
https://lists.launchpad.net/cuneiform/msg00058.html for how to make
"searchable pdfs" with the ocr text but the scanned image.

Tim

On 24 May 2011 18:27, Shanon Loughton <autobot at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Im looking for something that would scan a document, even If I feed one page
> at a time, is small, and what tools needed in linux to scan n store in PDF,
> preferably with word recognition.  Docs are mostly printed.
>
> cheers
> Shanon
>
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