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Kooka
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Kooka is a raster image scan program for the KDE system.
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PLEASE READ THE FILE "WARNING" FIRST !
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It uses the SANE-lib (http://www.sane-project.org/) and the the
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KScan-library which is a KDE module for scanner access.
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KScan and Kooka are under construction. Don't expect everything to work
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fine. If you want to help, please send patches to freitag@suse.de.
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Features:
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Kooka's main features are:
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Scanner Support using SANE:
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- Scanner support using SANE. Kooka _DOES_NOT_ support all features that SANE
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and its backends offer. It takes a small subset of the available options.
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- Kooka offers a GUI to change the most important scanner options like resolution,
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mode, threshold etc. These options are generated on the fly, depending on the
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scanner capabilities.
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- Kooka offers a preview-function and the user can select the scan area interactively
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or automatically.
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Image Storage:
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- Kooka provides an assistant to save your acquired images.
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- Filenames are generated automatically to support multiple scans.
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- Kooka manages the scanned images in a tree view where the user can delete and
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export images.
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Image Manipulation:
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- Kooka provides basic image manipulation functions like rotation, mirroring.
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- Cut images to fit size.
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Image Viewing:
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- Scanned images can be viewed by clicking them in the tree view.
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- The viewer has a zoom function.
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OCR:
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- Kooka supports Joerg Schulenburg's gocr, an open source program
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for optical character recognition (OCR). Kooka starts the OCR program
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and displays its output. Best results with bw-images scanned with ~150 DPI
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- Support for the commercial OCR/ICR package KADMOS of the reRecognition
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GmbH Kreuzlingen. Please read README.KADMOS for more information.
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Problems:
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=========
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* Kooka does not yet support all options SANE offers. That will
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improve in the future. However, I don't know if it makes sense to
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support all, even not very common options, some scanners offer. Lets
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see what is necessary and makes sense for the purpose of Kooka.
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* Kooka does not yet have a strategy for very large images :(. It uses
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the Qt TQImage/QPixmap as is. On some displays, that causes problems.
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* Automatic document feeder (ADF) support is not yet working correctly.
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----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Klaas Freitag <freitag@suse.de>
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$Id$
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