From LQWiki

If you want to convert a paper document of any kind into electronic form, you need to have a scanner.

While scanning into an image is fine for pictures and sketches you probably want to convert the image into letters when scanning a text. On Linux there is a program called gocr available that will do this task for you. But be warned: it is not working too well, and will not preserve the layout of your document.

How to do it

SUSE

With the SUSE Linux distribution, scan like this:

• install the device:

yast2 scanner

• use the scanning software:

xsane

See also

• Scanner
• Using the Printer and Scanner#The Scanner