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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@star-gate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Experience with scanners and software?
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 19:01:07 -0700
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I use a UMAX S12 with sane-0.61 and gimp 8)

sane can be used as a standalone tool or you can directly import
images into gimp.

http://www.azstarnet.com/~axplinux/sane/
http://www.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/~gimp/

Have fun,
	Amancio
Karl wrote:
> 
> What is a good scanner and software for FreeBSD 2.2.2?  I'm willing
> to pay for commercial software if it's actually worth it.  I'm
> interested primarily in text scans, but the accuracy and speed of the
> OCR scanning must be better than average, for doing a professional
> job.