Scanning

If you want to convert a paper document of any kind into electronic form, you need to have a scanner and the sane software package installed.

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 = Find out your distribution and proceed accordingly.

SUSE
With the SUSE Linux distribution, scan like this: yast2 scanner xsane
 * install the device:
 * use the scanning software: