Latest versions of puppyocr in both English and English/German versions now have functionality that can detect if a scanner is installed on your system.
Get them here:
English only 2.2Mb+:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-86ff5f1b.html
English/German 2.6MB+:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-d174ef95.html
On clicking the red scan button, a check is performed to ensure that a scanner is available. If there is no available scanner, a message will appear in the messages box to that effect.
To recap on the purpose of the the red scan button, this is a one-click solution that allows a loaded scanner document to be scanned and then OCR'd in one step. If there is no scanner available to you, but you do have an OCR-able image, just use the OCRit button instead. Best to have a scanner installed of course.
puppyocr 1.22 latest updates
puppyocr 1.22 latest updates
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