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 $Id$