scan in a page as a document, not an image... possible?

[Reurbo]

i'm looking to see if it's possible to scan in a document (computer print out, book page, etc...) and have it be able to open into OpenOffice or Okular (or some other pdf viewer) but i don't want it opened as an image.. i'm going to want to be able to search for words once it's scanned in like it was a regular text document.
i've used programs like gscan2pdf just to try but obviously with no luck.

any ideas or help is greatly appreciated
thank you

[Snowhog]

Re: scan in a page as a document, not an image... possible?

You can take a look at OCRFeeder. It's a Gnome app, but...

Available for install in the standard repositories, so you can install it from your package manager or from the command line (sudo apt-get install ocrfeeder).

Description: Document layout analysis and optical character recognition system
OCRFeeder is a document layout analysis and optical character
recognition system.
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Given the images it will automatically outline its contents,
distinguish between what's graphics and text and perform OCR over the
latter. It generates multiple formats being its main one ODT.
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It features a complete GTK graphical user interface that allows the
users to correct any unrecognized characters, defined or correct
bounding boxes, set paragraph styles, clean the input images, import
PDFs, save and load the project, export everything to multiple
formats, etc.

[Fenix-TX]

Re: scan in a page as a document, not an image... possible?

As an alternative you can use ocr from commandline with the image scanned.

Or using this: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php...content=121289