[ale] Document Imaging under Linux

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> James P. Kinney III said:
> 
>>Save the images as a pdf unless you plan on trying OCR, then scan using
>>black and white and save as tiff.
> 
> 
> But there's no open source pdf tools that allow you to generate from
> scanned images, right?  Not complaining...just want to make sure.

I don't know of any gui that will take you from scanned image to pdf, 
but you can:

scan -> postscript -> pdf

> 
> And OCR, in my experience, is completely unreliable.  Have things changed?

Still pretty well sucks unless you're going to spend big bucks.

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