The "nitty gritty" procedure is to scan to image, then OCR from image to text, then import the text into your wordprocessor. Almost as elegant and efficient as a plugin, and probably easier to implement. Other scanners come with scanning software which can be set to "push" OCR output to applications such as Writer. If they made such a plugin for OpenOffice, it may be possible to seamlessly import text from scanned image in Writer, IOW the plugin would provide OCR capability to OpenOffice. Scanner drivers or OCR software may come with an OCR plugin for various software. Alas, OpenOffice applications do not do OCR out of the box. There are several advantages to have the picture content converted to text. Menu sequence in Writer: Insert - Picture - Scan. When you have TWAIN compatibility (which you have with most scanners), you can scan from OpenOffice/LibreOffice. I'll try to rephrase what has already been stated, and fill in a few blanks. Mostly your questions have been answered, but perhaps in a roundabout manner.
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