printer driver driver

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:06:15
+0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

In message , micky
writes:
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:32:31
+0900, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
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The SANE project to which I contributed in the past mostly for Canon
devices, has most of the capabilities of VueScan, but OCR is not part of
the project,

Can't one use separate OCR software?
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Yes; I get depressed (or used to) at how many people think OCR is a

I'm glad you said "used to". Untreated OCR depression can be as great a
problem as OCD depression, or OCW**.

function of the scanner. It isn't. Most OCR software (all that I've ever
seen) can take image files as input (albeit sometimes limited to only
the common-with-scanner formats, such as TIFF and PDF), as well as
directly "driving" a scanner. Certainly Omnipage, Abbyy (sp?), and
PagePlus (I think) can.

**That's what Elmer Fudd has. Optical Character Wecognition.