Just installed gscan2pdf 0.9.20 on Ubuntu 10.04. It is hooked up to a Brother MFC 240c scanner. Scans fine with xsane. It also scans fine with gscan2pdf. I started with a document I printed to my laser printer - B&W at 300 dpi. GOCR produced very poor results. I switched to Tesseract and the OCR was 100%
Then I tried to scan the document I was actually interested in converting to a searchable PDF. NOTHING! The only differences I see between the two documents are as follows:
- document 2 has an image (State seal) at the top
- document 2 has various sizes of type
- document 2 has a signature in ink
I would have expected the program to at least OCR some of the document. It should have been able to find SOME text.
I have tried increasing the resolution of the scan to 400 then 600 dpi. No help. Set it to 1200 dpi - still waiting for the OCR to run.
I am at a loss. Any suggestions?
TIA,
Ken
p.s. I have an OLD version of Omnipage. I guess I will dig it out and install it on a VMWare XP guest
p.p.s. The 1200 DPI OCR just ran - nothing.