Kooka and jaunty

[Fintan]

apparently kooka has been dropped for kde4:
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Kooka

To do scanning in kde4 you will have to get skanlite from the repos.

More on skanlite:
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/e...hics/skanlite/

I hope this helps a few who do a lot of scanning.

[dibl]

Re: Kooka and jaunty

Also you have xsane and quiteinsane (qt frontend) available for scanning, and gimp2.0-quiteinsane for scanning images into gimp.

[The Liquidator]

Re: Kooka and jaunty

Also worth a look is gscan2pdf - it does rather more than the title suggests. Obviously, it's not kde-centric though.

[toad]

Re: Kooka and jaunty

Yeah, this stumped me too at first. Then I noticed that most graphic apps like krita have scanning integrated

[PhilT]

Re: Kooka and jaunty

I noticed this too; and does anybody know the best OCR program to use now Kooka is gone? I found the OCR incorporated into Xsane to be very poor.

[dibl]

Re: Kooka and jaunty

This was recommended on another Linux forum - I personally cannot vouch for it:

quiteinsane + gocr

[The Liquidator]

Re: Kooka and jaunty

tesseract (available in the repositories) seems to work very well. IIRC it's a former HP app that is now being developed by google. It works with gscan2pdf which I referred to above. Not sure about the others.

It seems streets ahead of gocr imho.

If your stuff isn't confidential you can also try here:

https://www.ocrterminal.com/dashboard/

I uploaded a 40 page scanned pdf which itself was a 20 year old photocopy bankruptcy checklist and it saved me an absolute age

[toad]

Re: Kooka and jaunty

quiteinsane + gocr

Just the name wants you to go out and try it

[PhilT]

Re: Kooka and jaunty

Thanks guys for this info; been very busy today and unable to follow up the suggestions. Will do so ASAP.