-> Nov. 2000, Klaas Freitag : initial version - December 2000, Klaas Freitag : Added support for calling the external ocr program gocr of Joerg Schulenburg and friends. See http://jocr.sourceforge.net for details. Mind that still everything is under construction, even if there could be some interesting screen hots around. OCR works best with smaller parts of text scanned black-and-white scanned with about 150 dpi. -> Released version 0.2 on kde.org - December 2000, Klaas Freitag : * Reworked the ocr integration: Nice start- and finish-dialog, animated status image, opening a text editor with the result text via mime mechanism of KDE (KRun). OCR-Parameter get stored via KConfig. OCR may be performed on the entire image or the selection. * Reworked the save assistant: New layout and fully KDE2-Compliant. Still no new Image format help texts. * Reworked the startup dialog: Allows to select the scan device from a list of available devices, possible to set the startup scan device 'forever'. * Resizing of the scan parameters. The scan parameters shell should take as much as space as it needs. It is not longer fix sized now. * Mirroring in three kinds of the displayed image with toolbar and menubar entries. That needed that the packager is able to handle changes on already saved images. * Creation of new images from the selection on the image canvas. - Jan 2001, Klaas Freitag : * Rotating of images. * Opening images in a kde graphic app. * Proper error messages if a changed image cant be saved. * drag and drop support: Pull an image from konqueror on the scanpackager ! The image wil be importet. * print support (basic) * basic configuration support ... and losts of other, small bug fixes, unfortunately not mentionend very well here. Sorry for that, I will try to do better. /* ================================================================================ */ -> Released version 0.3 in kdegraphics/kooka for KDE 2.2 The released version does actually not have too many new - July 2001, Klaas Freitag * fixed the img_saver-bug that the 'Do not ask again' is not honored. Now it should be, if it is checked, the format-Dialog will not be displayed again. * added a new section Image saver to the properties dialog * some changes to the image saver to display the image type (Lineart etc. ) * bugfixes in the image Saver /* ================================================================================ */ Nov 2001: Added a combo box below kooka's gallery widget. Since the gallery and the the preview window are in a tabwidget together, user complained that they do not see the directory they are scanning to while working on the preview page. The combobox shows the currently selected directory and is always visible. The user can use the combo to change the target dir without leaving the preview page. Nov 2001: Replaced the old ScanPackager object by a new one based on the new KFileTreeView Widget in kdelibs/kfile. Hopefully soon full KURL support and more than one image repository. Nov 2001: Moved preview image to a hidden directory under $KDEHOME/share/apps/ScanImages/.previews That makes the preview images invisible in the Packager. /* ================================================================================ */ many bugfixes for KDE 3.0 -> Released Kooka 0.35 for KDE 3.0 Released Kooka 0.36 for KDE 3.0.1 Mai 2002: Added Thumbnail View with Preference Dialog => Kooka Release 0.37 Completed About dialog and added the Webpage http://kooka.kde.org /* ================================================================================ */ For Kooka 0.38: Introduced KDockWidgets to make the GUI configurable to everybodies needs. /* ================================================================================ */ For Kooka 0.39: * Fixed problem with gocr: gocr always resulted in (PICTURE) - fixed it by changing the save format for images to gocr. This bug happens only with gocr 0.3.5 (and probably higher). * Renaming images inline reimplemented again. * exported Gallery Actions to appear in the menu bar again. * added a progress bar and bugfixes to the thumbview * added halftoning to the scanservice and thus kooka * fixed bugs in the resolving of dependencies of scanner parameters. /* ================================================================================ */ For Kooka 0.40: * Added Kadmos-Check to configure.in.in * Changed the Mainwindow to be KParts-Mainwindow,neccessary for using Parts in Kooka * OCR: Code massive reorganised. More ability to use different ocr engines. * OCR: Preparation to use Kadmos OCR engine. * OCR: Result not longer in a separat dialog, but in a editor part. * Scanpackager uses KookaImage more consequently. That provides meta data where needed * Improved image viewer from libkscan: Holds zoom settings over images * image information in status bar. /* ================================================================================ */ For Kooka 0.41: * Added support for ocrad OCR software. * Added image printing tab to the tab dialog, good printing support. * fixed some bugs with OCR result image handling. * libkscan: Fixed a cast bug with scan source selection * Improved support for tiff images, handle images with different x- and y resolution correctly.