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Express yourself.

With GOCR I'm not sure if there's some sort of a wrapper existing that lets you "batch OCR" multiple images (example all tiffs in folder my_book: /images/my_book/*.TIF) and stream them into ONE text file. On my platform I've been using tesseract in combination with ocube that let's you do exactly that. There should be a tesseract binary for windows but I don't know if there's a wrapper equivalent to ocube. Maybe try a web search for windows batch ocr or something like that.

I generally set my scanner to output TIFs, then after the editing and processing I usually just save to Word documents, but some people prefer saving to PDFs. I think the PDF-direct output is for people who just need a permanent record but don't intend to edit (receipts, accounting stuff and contracts tend to fall in this category). Yeah, I'd still like to know what the "PDF-direct" looks like in Dan's case: embedded image or text.

Impossible. PDF encapsulates a description of a document that includes text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics which compose the document. Scanning a page results in a bitmap (image). Scansoft PDF Converter 4 takes PDF files and converts to Word Doc or Publisher and other formats. For my scanner, when scanning printed pages, the default output options is PDF. What's that scanner model you use?

Alright, I didn't think of in-line OCR. Not so sure that PDF makes sense as output format when I want to have the text in an editable format. So if the scan unit provides in-line OCR it should be possible to save that OCR string as a text file.

Impossible. PDF encapsulates a description of a document that includes text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics which compose the document. Scanning a page results in a bitmap (image). You're on Windows, right? Try http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ which is released under the GNU Public License: no trial or shareware teaser - simply download an use the software.

Kleck.

Yup, I have you on CD. Your comp "Life Wish" is one of my favorites and we do listen to it very often. Quite an emotional tune.

OK, nice pics. But where can I check out the sounds you guys are making? Put some stuff online!

Nice. Are you going to put it online in some form?

Heißes Thema. Sollten Sätze in nicht englischer Sprache verboten werden?

Swiss customs: FY

Stanisław Lem has a somewhat similar story in "Tales of Pirx the Pilot". There's no moon involved though.

Art Arfons Fonzie Henry Winkler

Sorry, can't tell you.

...with Schmidt, as always, smoking like a chimney.

Helmut Schmidt vs. Helmut Kohl

NYC, Could you be talking about the best city on Earth? Probably not. Because that would be Basel.

is it contagious? at least you seem to have survived it...