You can scan paper documents
for archival purposes, or you can process them with optical character recognition
(OCR) software to translate images into words that can be put in an editable form.
openSUSE offers the SANE and Kooka applications to assist you with scanning.
Scanner support under Linux is provided by Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE). If your
scanner is supported, it is listed on the SANE support page at http://www.saneproject.
org/sane-supported-devices.html. You can find it using the search engine or
browse the list of supported scanners before you make your purchase.
NOTE
If you have a newer scanner, check the latest development versions of SANE. Each
new version adds support for more devices. If your scanner is supported only in the
development version, you need to download and compile the CVS version. This is a
complex operation suitable for advanced Linux users only, and it is beyond the scope
of this book. For information on that process, see the CVS HOWTO at the Linux
Documentation Project: http://www.tldp.org.
Kooka is a KDE application that provides standard scanning capabilities along with OCR
functions and its own image gallery.
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