[sane-devel] archiving old documents

[Julian H. Stacey]

> those of you who have already made such archives, what formats and
> resolutions have you found produce the best results should others
> wish to touch up or make other uses of the images?

If you've got typewritten docs in the mix, think carefully
before discarding bitmap scans eg .tiff.

I've only looked at OCR (optical character recognition) briefly,
	(built, installed, failed to get claraocr to work,
	 (a while ago, cant remember why, I'm not complaining)
	 Has a graphical interface.
		http://www.geocities.com/claraocr/
		FreeBSD: /usr/ports/graphics/claraocr
		http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=claraocr&stype=all

	built, installed, got gocr to work , Command line interface
		http://jocr.sourceforge.net
		FreeBSD: /usr/ports/graphics/gocr
		http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=gocr&stype=all
	)
but I get the impression OCR is OK from .tiff but not from .pdf

PS I'm ignorant on OCR, corrections welcome :-)

Cheers,
Julian
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