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From: "Stan Goodman"
I want to scan documents and photographs; I have fired up Kooka and read its documentation thoroughly. I find menu choices and icon buttons for doing many things with a scanned image, but so far have not discovered any way to induce the scanner to actually scan anything.
This has to be a failing of mine, because it is not possible that anybody would write documentation for a scanning application without including a sentence in the spirit: "To make a scan, do <thus and so>".
For all I know now, this application is not what I need at all for actually scanning material, but I see nothing in the documentation to tell me what else I need.
If someone will point out to me what I have overlooked this point, I will be very grateful.
I don't use kde and never heard of kooka before, but the very first page of http://kooka.kde.org/doc/manual.php Says: A) You need sane first, and thus a sane-supported scanner, and provides a link to the sane site. B) How to perform a scan. ----quote---- Chapter 1. Introduction Kooka is a KDE application that enables easy scanning using SANE libraries. Therefore,SANE the package must be installed to use Kooka. Clear and concise use was the focus of its development. Character recognition is also provided by the built-in text recognition program gocr. Install gocr to use this functionality. After character recognition is complete, the recognized material can be opened in the text editor Kate with just one click, where you can edit the contents. Chapter 2. Application Instructions The web site http://www.mostang.com/sane has information about supported scanners. Refer to it before purchasing a scanner, if possible. Start Kooka from a console by simply entering kooka. Create a link on the KDE desktop, which uses a scanner icon, if desired. The main window in Kooka consists of three frames. At the top, see both icon and a menu panels. Use the mouse to enlarge or reduce the windows as needed. The navigation window consists of two tabs, which allow you to switch between the Preview and the integrated file browser called the Gallery. The working directory is displayed in the lower part of the window along with the directory where the scan will be saved. Make your scanner-dependent settings, which are dependent on the scanner you have connected, in the lower left window. Usually, these are settings for resolution, brightness and contrast, scanning mode (e.g., color, gray, or binary), and for gamma values. Configure your settings here first. Afterwards, initiate the preview scan with Preview. If the Preview tab in the upper window is selected, see the results there. Select the various formats in the preview image itself to define the final dimensions. The User setting is recommended for this, so you select the area to scan in the preview display with the mouse. After this is done, click Scan to scan the selection made in the preview. After scanning, you will be asked in which format to save the image whether to make this your standard format (without being prompted to confirm your selection in the future). ---quote--- I would have assumed that when kooka was installed, yast would have automatically installed sane also as a dependancy. So all you should have to do now is ensure your scanner is one sane supports. You might need to look at this too: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Scanner -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org