Scanning with Kooka and KScan ============================= Kooka and KScan use the SANE library to attach to the scanner hardware. It cannot be avoided by any library that a program sends commands to the scanner which can damage it. Especially very cheap scanners sometimes do not have a hardware protection against driving the bed to far, which can cause terrible noise and damage :-( That is why you should be warned running Kooka or the KDE scanservice the first time. Even if there were no reportings that something bad happens to any scanner models using Kooka yet, but it can not be garanteed. Starting to scan the first time, be sure to sit next to your scanner having your hand on the power-off switch. Switch off immediately if you hear unexpected noises or if something strange happens. If you find errors, please dont ask the SANE-people without having made sure that your error is _really_ a SANE error. Most probably, you found an KScan or Kooka-Error, which should be reported at http://bugs.kde.org - Klaas Freitag $Id$