Kooka

Kooka is a raster image scan program for KDE 3. It is replaced by a built-in scanning utility and by Skanlite in KDE 4. A KDE 4 version of Kooka is still being developed.

Kooka is an intuitive, easy to use open source GNU/Linux scan program. It is the scan application of choice for the KDE project and thus it is official part of the KDE Graphics Package.

Preview view

Gallery mode viewing a scan

Features

Scanning

• Scanner support using the SANE library.
• Handling of the important scanner options like resolution, mode, threshold etc. in a user friendly dialog.
• Preview- and final scanning
• Interactive and automatic scan area selection on a preview pane.

Image Storage

• The save assistant helps you to find the correct image format for your purpose and creates a filename for you automatically.
• Images are stored in the gallery - no need to find a folder to save for every test scan.

The Image Gallery

• A treeview organised place where your images are stored.
• Create and remove folders to organise your image collections.
• Intelligent zooming for best viewing comfort.
• Basic image manipulation functions like rotating, cropping and more.
• Image printing in original and custom size.
• Correct handling of picky tiff images like multipage tiffs.
• Drag and drop with other KDE programs.

OCR

• Kooka supports GOCR, an open source ocr project.
• Kooka works with KADMOS, a commercial OCR/ICR toolbox.
• Kooka interfaces Ocrad, a Free Software OCR program.

KDE Scan Service

• The libkscan provides a user friendly scan service to all other KDE applications which want to use it.
• Currently the KOffice Application and KView support it.

External links

• http://kooka.kde.org/ - Project website (not up-to-date)