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Scanning with sane’s scanimage from an ADF scanner to PDF and OCRed Text

Published by Jonah on January 5, 2008 in Uncategorized, hacks, linux, scanning, software and ubuntu. 4 Comments

Using libsane and tesseract, you can scan from an ADF (or non ADF) scanner in Ubuntu 7.10 to a PDF and OCR’ed text document with a few easy steps.

First we need to make sure we have the necessary packages installed.

apt-get install tesseract-ocr sane-utils

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