Kooka

Kooka is a raster image scan program for the KDE system.

PLEASE READ THE FILE "WARNING" FIRST !

It uses the SANE-lib (http://www.mostang.com/sane/) and the the KScan-library which is a KDE module for scanner access.

KScan and Kooka are under construction. Don't expect everything to work fine. If you want to help, please send patches to freitag@suse.de.

Features

Kookas main features are:

Sacnner Support using SANE:
- Scanner support using SANE. Kooka _DOES_NOT_ support all features that SANE and its backends offer. It takes a small subset of the available options. - Kooka offers a gui to change the most important scanner options like resolution, mode, threshold etc. These options are generated on the fly, depending on the scanner capabilities.
- Kooka offers a preview-function and the user can select the scan area interactively or automatically.

Image Storage:
- Kooka provides an assitant to save your acquired images. - Filenames are generated automatically to support multiple scans. - Kooka manages the scanned images in a tree view where the user can delete and export images.

Image Manipulation:
- Kooka provides basic image manipulation functions like rotation, mirroring. - Cut images to fit size.

Image Viewing:
- Scanned images can be viewed by clicking them in the tree view. - The viewer has a zoom function.

OCR

- Kooka supports Joerg Schulenburg's gocr, an open source program for optical character recognition. Kooka starts the OCR program and displays its output. Best results with bw-images scanned with ~150 dpi - Support for the commercial OCR/ICR package KADMOS of the reRecognition GmbH Kreuzlingen. Please read README.KADMOS for more information.

Problems

Kooka does not yet support all options SANE offers. That will improve in the future. However, I dont know if it makes sense to support all, even not very common options, some scanners offer. Lets see what is neccessary and makes sense for the purpose of kooka.
Kooka does not yet have a strategy for very large images :(. It uses the Qt QImage/QPixmap as is. On some displays, that causes problems.
ADF support is not yet working correctly.

Klaas Freitag <freitag@suse.de>

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