Kooka
is a raster image scan program for KDE
Kooka is an intuitive, easy to use open source GNU/Linux scan program which is released under
the GNU General Public License with
exceptions.
Kooka is the scan application of choice for the KDE project and thus it is official part of the
KDE Graphics Package.
Kooka helps you to handle the most important scan parameters, find the correct image file format
to save and manage your scanned images. It offers support for different OCR modules. Libkscan, a
autonomous part of Kooka, provides a scan service for easy and consistent use to all KDE applications.
Kooka supports
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
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Kooka moved out of KDE Graphics
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July 13, 2007
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Kooka was dropped from the
kdegraphics module for KDE 4. The reason for this
is the lack of active development and maintenance for long time.
However, there have been discussions around that, for example around this
dot.kde.org story.
It was somebody speaking up interested in carrying on Kooka development.
If you are a friend of Kooka, cross fingers, might be that development
continues.
If you are willing to help, please drop a note!
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New Kooka Version: 0.44
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May 4, 2004
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Kooka version 0.44 is a slightly enhanced standalone version of the
Kooka that came with the latest KDE 3.2.1.
It uses Ocrad as default
ocr engine, because the results of ocrad are very good (given a good scan ;) and
it supports layout detection. Kooka 0.44 provides a user interface including layout
detection selection for ocrad.
You can downlaod
kooka-0.44.tar.bz2 from
here via FTP.
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New Kooka Version: 0.41a
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Nov 1, 2003
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The new Kooka version 0.41a is mainly a bugfix release for version 0.41.
It fixes a bug that prevented Kooka to work with the recently released
version 0.5 of Ocrad.
Moreover it fixes a serious bug in the thumbnail list handling.
Download
kooka-0.41a.tar.bz2 version from
here via FTP.
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New Kooka Version: 0.41
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Oct 24, 2003
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The new Kooka version 0.41 implements support for
Ocrad, which is a
promising free software OCR program. Kooka works as a frontend to ocrad.
Moreover, image printing was implemented. Many bugfixes went into the
code.
Downlaod the new Kooka version from
here via FTP.
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ORF Proposal: Ocr Result File
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August 20, 2003
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Ocrad is the first OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application
that implements output of ocr results in a special file format that could be easily
processed by frontend programs. To read more about the file format proposal,
press the 'Read more' button.
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