[scribus] Scanning and OCR Question

Ian "Witty" Whitfield editor at federalsaints.net
Sun Oct 3 13:37:31 CEST 2010


I have noted the recent questions Re: Scanning and would like to ask the 
following...

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 "Gobblde-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.

Thanks Guys
-- 
*/_Ian "Witty" Whitfield _/*

*Editor of - _"The Federal Saints Journal" _*
Pretoria, South Africa**



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