What Scanner App Are You Using.

altman · 2024-05-24 19:40:41

As per title states what do you use.

I use Simple Scan, I also have XSane installed, but can t use it the way I m using Simple Scan which looks easier on my end.

Last edited by altman (2024-05-24 19:42:54)

Döbbie03 · 2024-05-25 00:26:32

Nothing on my Linux machine. Any printing/scanning I do via my MacBook and the HP (yuk) app.

johnraff · 2024-05-25 06:11:27

Xsane does what I need, which isn't all that much so I've never searched for a replacement.
But I'll give simple-scan a try.

BTW is it off-topic to ask what OCR software people use?

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altman · 2024-05-25 09:17:11

johnraff wrote:

Xsane does what I need, which isn't all that much so I've never searched for a replacement.
But I'll give simple-scan a try.
BTW is it off-topic to ask what OCR software people use?

Hey cool,I just find it easier, maybe that I m used to it.I think it all comes back to personal choices .

No worries about the off-topic bit @johnraff,I just wonder what s OCR (or I don t know why it stands for) ,I m a sort of no tech guy ! lol

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hhh · 2024-05-25 14:11:45

altman wrote:

I just wonder what s OCR (or I don t know why it stands for)

Optical Character Recognition...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_c … ecognition

I've never used anything, but gimagereader and tesseract-ocr are in the Debian repos...

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/gimagereader

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/tesseract-ocr

PackRat · 2024-05-25 14:25:45

I used to use xsane; very seldom had to scan anything. Simple scan looks interesting though.

As of now, I have an old Brother all-in-one printer that I use as a scanner. It will scan to a removable media; then I transfer to the computer.

altman · 2024-05-25 14:44:18

hhh wrote:

altman wrote:
I just wonder what s OCR (or I don t know why it stands for)
Optical Character Recognition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_c … ecognition
I've never used anything, but gimagereader and tesseract-ocr are in the Debian repos...
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/gimagereader
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/tesseract-ocr

Oh, thx @hhh, I searched a bit, but it came out with something different.

Appreciated.

altman · 2024-05-25 14:45:44

PackRat wrote:

I used to use xsane; very seldom had to scan anything. Simple scan looks interesting though.
As of now, I have an old Brother all-in-one printer that I use as a scanner. It will scan to a removable media; then I transfer to the computer.

Yep I find SimpleScan easier to use, but it might be me.

I wasn t aware that one could add a removable media to an AIO printer, it might be posible with an HP as well, never know, not that it s needed right now.

Sometime I need it in order to send paperwork for my mother or someone else.

But a bit less now with e-paperwork etc as times go by.

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Martin · 2024-05-25 21:36:41

hhh wrote:

altman wrote:
I just wonder what s OCR (or I don t know why it stands for)
Optical Character Recognition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_c … ecognition
I've never used anything, but gimagereader and tesseract-ocr are in the Debian repos...
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/gimagereader
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/tesseract-ocr

I have used tesseract some in the past. It works fairly well once you found a good scanning resolution. It is not very resolution sensitive but it is possible to both underdo and overdo resolution. Yes, you can have too high resolution I found.

/Martin

altman · 2024-05-25 21:48:13

Martin wrote:

hhh wrote:
altman wrote:
I just wonder what s OCR (or I don t know why it stands for)
Optical Character Recognition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_c … ecognition
I've never used anything, but gimagereader and tesseract-ocr are in the Debian repos...
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/gimagereader
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/tesseract-ocr
I have used tesseract some in the past. It works fairly well once you found a good scanning resolution. It is not very resolution sensitive but it is possible to both underdo and overdo resolution. Yes, you can have too high resolution I found.
/Martin

Nice site by the way, Didn t know you were into sailing. Never had one but I find boats interesting.

brontosaurusrex · 2024-05-26 04:38:25

@johnraff, It appears my conclusion from 2023 was to use a cloudy one (I was trying to get some data to check from video frames, so non-typical scenario in play).

johnraff · 2024-05-26 05:01:29

^I tried a couple before but can't remember which one eventually worked, and even then wasn't all that great.
I'll have a look at those cloud services, thanks!
Not for any kind of private content of course...

Sector11 · 2024-05-29 02:45:13

Have not used a scanner in more years than I remember.
With Windows yes, with Linux never so at least not since 2007.

altman · 2024-05-29 11:42:42

Yep, some stuff are easier on windows sadly but it s slowly getting there on Linux.

If I had it wired it would ve been way more easier , but the printer s a bit too far for a cable in order to make use of one.

The worst thing to do was to settle the wifi router to the printer(when I figured it out) with the SimpleScan app from my linux lappy(BL).

WolfeN · 2024-05-31 06:26:30

I use NAPS2 - I like its simplicity.

altman · 2024-06-01 10:25:31

Thx for sharing @WolfeN, never heard of that one.

Oh, that one;

https://www.naps2.com/linux-scanning

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DeepDayze · 2024-06-01 22:33:13

I've been using Simplescan for the longest time and liked its simplicity as well. Can scan b&w too.

shortarcflyer · 2024-06-01 23:45:46

I use simplescan. It is the first scanning app I used and since I am familiar with it I stuck with using it.

johnraff · 2024-10-01 08:30:38

hhh wrote:

altman wrote:
I just wonder what s OCR (or I don t know why it stands for)
Optical Character Recognition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_c … ecognition
I've never used anything, but gimagereader and tesseract-ocr are in the Debian repos...
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/gimagereader
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/tesseract-ocr

brontosaurusrex wrote:

@johnraff, It appears my conclusion from 2023 was to use a cloudy one (I was trying to get some data to check from video frames, so non-typical scenario in play).

I've had to play with OCR some more lately, and tried all those options.

Gimagereader sort-of worked but there were artefacts you have to remove, and words stucktogether that had to be separated. More manual post-processing than I wanted.

The cloud service Bronto discovered was excellent by comparison - hardly any errors at all. It did need some post-processing (can be automated) though, because the text came back with Windows linebreaks \r\n. Also, for whatever reason, I was unable to register for the api service - the confirmation emails didn't arrive.

At that point I discovered that the cli tesseract-ocr gives excellent results too! So no need to leave my local computer after all. Considering gimagereader is supposed to be using tesseract as a backend I don't understand why its results were so inferior. Scan your image at 300 dpi and give it to tesseract:

tesseract /path/to/image /path/to/output -dpi 300

will do it.

I'm going to post some more details of linking simplescan or xsane to tesseract in the Scripts, Tutorials & Tips section.

Here: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=9164

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micko01 · 2024-10-01 10:18:25

I recently got a new epson XP-4205 printer/scanner and it was easier to setup on linux than the missus' macbook. (wireless networked). Works ootb on wayland with Xsane or simple scan but really, simple scan is too bare bones for me, but does the job. Xsane has a _tonne_ of features that mostly work pretty well even though the UX has been a dog's breakfast since forever!

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