[Ham-Computers] Re How To Chain Pages

Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:16:03 +0000

Hi  Duane Fischer, W8DBF:

> The save to a text file option on the HP scanner uses the 255 character line
> length and is useless. 	

   I thought you were scanning it out as an image file and using an OCR to 
convert it to text, which normally creates lines as long as the original
lines AFAIK.

> I looked in Word Pad Ron, but I found nothing about insert a file or appending
> to the existing document, at least not by any name that suggested that is what
> it did.   	

   That's why I thought you could use the DOS based program that you mentioned.

> What a ridiculous job for such a simple thing! If I were not totally blind, I
> would just type this in and be done with it. But I would have to get a reader
> and do it by dictation, not going to happen over the holidays. Everyone is busy.

   I don't know what yo are working with, I never heard of text from a scanner,
my two (one an HP 5P) don't do it, but I use LINUX exclusively and it might
actually be the M$ program that operates the scanner has an OCR in it.
(you might be able to change it's line length from 255 to "document lengths")
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