Thanks, Huub Richard Richard Schmitt wrote: >I tried out gocr with xsane. The scanning of a page of typewritten >material was very efficient. But the ocr did not manage to recognize one >word. It did not work. > >Just for comparison's sake I scanned and ocr'd the same page on Windows >with an old edition of TextBridge I happened to have around and that >was, if not flawless, acceptable. > >Is my gocr not setup properly or does it not work? > >Thanks, Richard > > gocr has never worked for me...so I stick to W2k and ABBYY FineReader for the time being. Good luck Huub