SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Scanning and OCR

Scanning:

• Ask Slashdot: Relisys Infinity Scorpio Scanner Support and Red Hat
• SANE Home Page (most popular Linux scanning SW)
• Parallel port scanners under WINE
• sanecgi (browser-based interface to SANE-compatible scanners)
• XVScan Scanning Software "for HP-UX, Linux, SunOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, and BSD/OS"
• tkscan:
  • tkscanfax   Or tkscan. "a tcl/tk GUI for command-line scanner driver"
  • Using a Scanner Under Linux (by Michael Holve; a review of tkscan usage)
• Vividata, Inc.  $; ScanShop, OCRShop, FaxShop, PostShop products for scan, OCR, fax, print.
• Ask Slashdot:Linux Scanners (and PCMCIA SCSI)
• Ask Slashdot: Can Linux use Parallel Port Scanners?
• Artec:
  • Artec Scanner Protocol (by Michael Katz-Hyman)
  • Artec USA  Ultima International or Ultima Electronics Corp.
  • Artec Taiwan  English sub-site.

OCR:

• An As-Yet-Unnamed OCR Project (actual name; for unixy OSes)
• Vividata, Inc.  $; ScanShop, OCRShop, FaxShop, PostShop products for scan, OCR, fax, print.
• There's an "xocr" out there somewhere. Said to work poorly Jan'99.

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