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+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.sane-project.org/) 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:
+=========
+
+Kooka's main features are:
+
+Scanner 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 assistant 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 (OCR). 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 don't know if it makes sense to
+support all, even not very common options, some scanners offer. Lets
+see what is necessary 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.
+
+* Automatic document feeder (ADF) support is not yet working correctly.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Klaas Freitag <freitag@suse.de>
+
+$Id$
+