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    [ubuntu] Re: Samsung series 9

    The wireless problem on my 900X1B-A02 (version 2 with broadcom wireless module) has made the laptop a real pain to use - connection continually dropping. I have spent far too much time trying to fix...
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    Re: Linux OCR solution

    I have tried version 1.2 and got further than before. The package seems to install and uninstall OK. One dependency probably worth adding is desktop-file-utils as I had to install this to get the...
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    [all variants] Re: Fast Flatbed Scanner

    wolfen69, thanks for the link.

    Unfortunately, manufacturers publish scan speeds in different ways, such as lines per second - and this figure seems to vary depending on black & white, grey scale,...
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    [all variants] Fast Flatbed Scanner

    I am trying to put together an Ubuntu-based print-to-speech system with a flatbed scanner, OCR and TTS. This is to help someone with a visual impairment read letters etc.

    One of the difficulties I...
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    Re: Announce: eViacam 1.5.3

    Nice bit of software. Works on Kubuntu 11.10, too.
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    Re: Print to Speech Reader

    Hi blaineclrk, thanks for your suggestions. I'll have a go with vinux and see what it is like.

    The person I am trying to set this up for is not computer literate and needs a very simple...
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    Re: Print to Speech Reader

    The clearest free voices that I have found are the Nitech HTS ones, which I have been running using the festival speech engine.

    It took a bit of work to get the Nitech voices running because the...
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    Print to Speech Reader

    I have been investigating Print-to-Speech-Readers for someone who has lost their sight, and having balked at the price and performance of the commercial devices I have seen, wondered whether it would...
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    Re: Linux OCR solution

    I could not get this to run properly on kubuntu 11.10. I also had problems uninstalling the package, and had to resort to deleting it manually as the packaged uninstall scripts failed. Will be a...
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