Portable scanner to text for ubuntu 12.04

[Rolf Grunsky]

On 14-01-23 07:21 AM, Don Parsons wrote:
> Is there a recent mobile scanner (scanning to text) that installs easily
> into Ubuntu 12.04?
> I have spent much time trying to to install older scanners without success.
> Thanks
> Don Parsons
>
>

I suspect that the scanner Don is referring to is a document scanner 
like the Epson DS-30. This is neither a hand scanner or a flat bed 
scanner. I have one of these, it works very well. However it does not 
and probably never will, work with Linux. Epson supplies twain drivers 
and a version Abby Sprint that installs and works very well with Windows 
XP (and probably works with Vista, 7 and 8).

To the best of my knowledge there is no useful OCR software for Linux. 
If you want to be able scan directly (or even indirectly) to text, there 
are NO Linux solutions. The closest you can come is to try and install 
the software in an XP virtual machine, assuming of course that it will 
see your USB connected scanner.

With Linux, I'm afraid this is a lost cause!

Cheers
Rolf

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