Kooka
Kooka is an
intuitive, easy to use open source scan and Optical Character
Recogniton (OCR) suite.
Kooka has been the scan application of choice for the KDE
project and is an official part of the KDE Graphics Package. However,
Kooka has
been dropped from KDE
4.
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 separate element
of Kooka, provides a scan service for easy and consistent use to all
KDE
applications.
Character recognition is provided by the built-in text
recognition program gocr.
Kooka 0.44
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Price
Free to download
Size
3.2MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Ivan Shvedunov, Klaas Freitag
Website
www.sourcefiles.org
System Requirements
Latest versions of KDE and Qt are recommended
Support
Sites:
Selected
Reviews:
Softpedia
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Features include:
Scanning
- Scanner support using the SANE library. (SANE
stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming
interface (API) that provides standardized access to image scanner
hardware). Only a subset of the features that SANE provides are
supported by Kooka
- Handles the important scanner options like
resolution, mode, threshold etc. in a friendly dialog
- Preview and final scanning
- Interactive and automatic scan area selection on a preview
pane
Image Storage
- Save assistant helps you to find the correct image format
for your purpose and automatically creates a filename
- Manages the scanned images in a tree view where the user
can delete and export images (referred to as the Image Gallery, see the
next section).
The Image Gallery
- A treeview organised place where your images are stored
- Create and remove folders to organise your image
collections
- Intelligent zooming
- Basic image manipulation functions like rotating,
mirroring, cropping and more
- Image printing in original and custom size
- Correct handling of multipage TIFF files
- Drag and drop with other KDE applications
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.
- Supports KOffice
and KView
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to Graphics Home Page
Kooka also features in our 'Linux
Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category
selector below allows you to filter the different types of software
included in that separate article.
Last Updated Saturday, February 25 2012 @ 09:05 AM EST
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