Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting an image from a scanner ify

I have a Brother MFC-240C Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax/PCFAX/Photo Centre.
To the best of my knowledge there is no default scanner software for Ubuntu.
     Simple Scan was installed with the system. I didn't like it so, I
installed
     Xsane Image Scanning Program, which was not much better, so I found
and installed
     gscan2pdf which is great.
I just checked, whereis found both sane and xsane.

Yes, I can use gscan2pdf to scan documents. If memory serves I can even
copy and paste from it to LO. I just wanted to avoid running a 2nd
program as LO is supposed to do this.

BTW. A good reason for having gscan2pdf 0.9.x is that it has 3 OCR
engines in it. Tesseract-ocr 2.x.x is the best, it recognizes several
languages, though you have to download the language files. Once I have
gscan2pdf 1.0.0 set up so that I can install it, it will recognize even
more languages and scripts. As gscan2pdf 1.0.0 seems to include the
Tesseract-ocr 3.x.x engine and the language files.

On 11-11-23 04:25 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> LO 32-bit or 64-bit DEB?  3.4.3? 3.4.4? or some other version?
>
> What is the Printer/Scanner model you are using?  What is the the
> default scanner software you are using for Ubuntu?  Do you have XSane
> installed or just Sane?
>
> I know that my Artisan Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax [network, wireless,
> and USB]does not have a working driver for the scanner so I can use it
> with Ubuntu [10.04 LTS], so I use my HP PSC-1410 [print-scan-copy -
> USB] as my Ubuntu Scanner.  I have it buried and will have to un-bury
> it to do a proper test for the scanning into LO.  But that will have
> to be later, since I have to leave for a meeting after I sent this email.
>
> Any reason you do not scan in the image through XSane or other
> package, save it to a file, then import the file?  Or at least for now
> till we find out what is needed to get that option working correctly.
>
> On 11/23/2011 04:13 PM, Udvarias Ur wrote:
> > I tried 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Request ...' in LibreOffice on
> > Ubuntu. Nothing happened.
> >
> > I rebooted into Windows.
> > The same menu item resulted in
> >       1. the scanner being immediately activated,
> >       2. the document in the scanner being scanned, and
> >       3. the result being pasted into the open document in LibreOffice.
> >          (Full 216 mm X 279 mm (US letter size).)
> >
> > I rebooted to Ubuntu.
> > There I found that if I:
> >       first go to 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Select ...',
> >            I get a dialogue box in which I can select a scanner, and
> >            set the dimensionsof the document to scan.
> > Whether I the set dimensionsor not I can click the 'Create Preview'
> > button,when I do.
> >       I get a error box telling me I can not create a preview though I
> > can scan.
> >       Clicking 'OK' in the error box activates the scanner and scans the
> > document.
> > However, when I click the 'OK'buttonin the 'Scanner' selection dialogue
> > boxeverything disappears.
> >
> > I learned, by accident, that I can:
> >      1. Select 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Select ...',
> >      2. Select 'Insert / Picture / Scan / Request ...'
> > Which will now scan the document and past it into the open document in
> > LibreOffice.
> >
> > The issue however, is that the default paper size is 212 mm X 276 mm.
> > This is neither A4 nor US letter size.
> >
> > The issue worsenswhen I set the paper size to 216 mm X 279 mm (US letter
> > size) and the size is automatically reset to 212 mm X 276 mm thereby
> > cutting off all the edges when the document is scanned.
> >
> > Worst still the next time I start LibreOffice writer the paper size is
> > reset to 212 mm X 276 mm.
> >
> > How can this be corrected?

-- 
Udvarias Ur

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