Re: [LUG] Text bridging

[kevin bailey <kevin_bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi paul,

not sure RE scanning and OCR on linux - but if you do get the text in 
you can use openoffice 6 to save the document in MS office formats - 
including office 2000/XP.  someone - parent or teacher must have a 
scanner/PC from tiny type package and the OCR software i've seen with a 
windows computer worked fine,

kev

Paul Sutton wrote:

> Hi
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> I am not sure if Linux can provide a solution here,
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> The ict co - ordinator at the school where I am working has lost some term
> lesson plans due to a virus,  etc,  To solve the situation the idea was for
> me to use text bridge and a scanner to scan the hard copies in and save in
> word doc format,
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> I went in this afternoon to see the technician about how to use textbridge
> but he was busy. However According to the ict co-ordinator it is not
> possible having asked the technician  to do this as the documents are in
> landscape format and due to a problem with the textbridge software it's not
> possible to scan landscape documents.  .
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> I can retype the documents no problem but thought there must be a solution
> and a way round this given the number of conversion utilities available
> using linux,  or most operating system,  but linux seems to have loads of
> useful utils for this type of thing.
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> Does anyone know of any solutions,
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> In the meantime I will have a look at what is available with Linux,  but any
> ideas would be a great help,
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> thanks
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