Scanner Software

[Ilwrath]

BetaScan, an excellent package, available free on Aminet, says it's HP driver package  supports the following scanners......

  ScanJet
  ScanJet +
  ScanJet IIp
  ScanJet IIc
  ScanJet IIcx
  ScanJet 3p
  ScanJet 3c
  ScanJet 4c
  ScanJet 4p
  ScanJet 5p
  ScanJet 4100C
  ScanJet 5100C
  ScanJet 5200C
  ScanJet 6100C
  ScanJet 6200C
  ScanJet 6300C

NOTE: the following HP scanners are NOT supported:
ScanJet 4s, ScanJet 4si, ScanJet 5s, Network ScanJet5, ScanJet 3200C, ScanJet 3300C, ScanJet 4200C

So, I'm not sure if your HP SJ4 is one of those sub-models listed, or not...  If it is listed as supported, I'd highly recommend this package.  I use it with my huge beast of a SCSI Mustek Scanner.

[Ilwrath]

Hmm.... I don't have any to recommend first-hand.

There is an archive on Aminet ....  agocr.lha -- it appears to be a port of a unix-ish OCR package.  A bit out of date, perhaps.... But free!  :-)  Can't hurt to try it.

The base version is now called jOCR, but there isn't an Amiga executable of that.  (If you have a GCC environment, it might not be hard to compile one from the source, but I couldn't tell you for sure, because I didn't look any further into it.)

Off-topic:  Say.... Are you the "Primetime" that used to call the Detroit area C64/Amiga BBSs?