Re: [PLUG] What's a small document scanner that's easy to use?

["Keith C. Perry via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

I haven't looked at portable scanners in awhile but most modern all-in-one printers support scan-to-<email,ftp or smb> in the form of a pdf doc.  I have one such printer in my office and it works fine with Linux in that regard (even printing from the Chrome on Linux or the Chromebook works directly- no cloud print needed).

As others have said, if you use your mobile phone to take pictures, you can do OCR pretty reliably for printed text.  I've used Tessaract (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) for that.

It may be possible to train it to recognize your handwriting as well but I didn't go that far down the rabbit hole :)


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----- Original Message -----
From: "jeff via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2019 11:30:36 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] What's a small document scanner that's easy to use?

On 8/23/19 10:57 AM, K.S. Bhaskar via plug wrote:
> Incidentally, I was at a wedding in California over the weekend where 
> they had hired Google buses to transport the guests. 

It would take some convincing to get me on that bus  :)

It probably scans your electronic devices and wallet 'for a better 
passenger experience.'
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