Kooka - Future Plans

I run Kooka with HPLIP on Kubunu Feisty and it is
excellent.

I very much need to do multiple page scanning. I can live
with exporting to 
PDF using Open Office for so long but to have a PDF save
with multiple page 
scanning would mean I could dump Windows in our office
altogether. I know I 
am not alone.

How far off is this?
Would a specific Project directed developer donation help?

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On Sunday 15 Jul 2007, Administrator wrote:
> I run Kooka with HPLIP on Kubunu Feisty and it is
excellent.
>
> I very much need to do multiple page scanning. I can
live with exporting to
> PDF using Open Office for so long but to have a PDF
save with multiple page
> scanning would mean I could dump Windows in our office
altogether. I know I
> am not alone.
>
> How far off is this?
> Would a specific Project directed developer donation
help?

Hi,

Kooka is currently an un-maintained application with no
active developement.  
In fact, for KDE4 it is being removed from the core KDE
distribution, but it 
will still be available in the extragear module and so most
distributions 
will continue to include it.  I would look for someone to
step up in the 
KDE4.1 timeframe with a new and simplified scanning app that
will probably 
support multipage scanning.

Cheers!

John.

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You could try xsane as an alternative to kooka. The
interface looks a
bit arcane but it's still a quite practical and fast
scanning GUI for
Linux. I don't know if it supports PDF output but it's able
to
automatically number multi-page scans like this:
myscan0001.png, myscan0002.png, myscan0003.png, ...

Cheers,
Wolfgang

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:11 John Layt <johnlayt1yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
> On Sunday 15 Jul 2007, Administrator wrote:
> > I run Kooka with HPLIP on Kubunu Feisty and it is
excellent.
> >
> > I very much need to do multiple page scanning. I
can live with exporting to
> > PDF using Open Office for so long but to have a
PDF save with multiple page
> > scanning would mean I could dump Windows in our
office altogether. I know I
> > am not alone.
> >
> > How far off is this?
> > Would a specific Project directed developer
donation help?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Kooka is currently an un-maintained application with no
active developement.  
> In fact, for KDE4 it is being removed from the core KDE
distribution, but it 
> will still be available in the extragear module and so
most distributions 
> will continue to include it.  I would look for someone
to step up in the 
> KDE4.1 timeframe with a new and simplified scanning app
that will probably 
> support multipage scanning.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> John.
> 
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Alle domenica 15 luglio 2007, John Layt ha scritto:
> Kooka is currently an un-maintained application with no
active
> developement. In fact, for KDE4 it is being removed
from the core KDE
> distribution, but it will still be available in the
extragear module and so
> most distributions will continue to include it.


Even if the results are not so good, Kooka implements
a scanner tool. It's true that gocr can be use with its
native interface, but I'm sorry that, in the open source,
there is no tool as OmniPage for people, like me,
using and needing often a goor OCR...

M.

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