[ubuntu-za] Scanning and OCR question

[Quintin van Rooyen]

IAN!

I lost your number.

Could you please send it to me that I can get the disk to you...

(sorry for OT but I have been trying to get his details)

Regards

Q

On 5 October 2010 11:16, Ian Whitfield <whitfield at federalsaints.net> wrote:

>  Hi All
>
> I recently put this question up on the Scribus Forum but got no reply -
> Any suggestions??
>
> I need to Scan and OCR a lot of material for the Journal I produce with
> Scribus. I run Kubuntu 10.04 and have a Brother MFC 8860DN
> Scanner/Printer. The unit scans well but I can no longer get it to OCR
> correctly for inclusion in my publication. I use the Sane system but
> when I set it to OCR I just get pages of "Gobblede-Gook" I used to get
> 'fair' OCR with Kubuntu 9.10. Anyone have any suggestions on settings
> etc for this? I've tried various resolutions with no luck.
>
> As a matter of interest the printer now will also no longer tumble the
> pages for Double-Sided printing since I upgraded to 10.04! Do you think
> this could all be due to a driver problem? I use the Ubuntu Drivers from
> the Brother site.
>
> Maybe I must wait for Kubuntu 10.10 and/or I'm thinking about the new
> Linux Mint KDE!!
>
> Thanks Guys
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