Version:           0.42 (using KDE KDE 3.2.3)
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages
Compiler:          Mepis LInux - no compiler 
OS:                Linux

Using Kooka 0.42 on KDE 3.2.3 on Mepis Linux

I was just wondering about why the ability to save as a tif file hasn't been included in kooka ?
You can scan in binary/b&w mode but what format can it be saved in as a b&w image file ?

The scanimage command has the option to output as tif.

A great job has been done on the app, with a lot of progress.

G4 compressed tif files are small and can be at 600dpi, quite easily. I
used to work for a company supporting professional printing packages that work
with the G4 tifs so because of size and quality. A 600dpi uncompressed
binary tif, can be 4.2M, a greyscale tif is 34M so when a G4 compressed tif
is around 90K, it is a huge difference in size. G3 compression reduces it
to about 200K. A 600dpi pnm file is also 34M, binary is 4.1M, Jpeg greyscale
is 3.2M, binary is about 1.3M. A long way from 90K, so unless for license
restrictions, it seems silly to me, not to be able to save as a G4
compressed tif from xscanimage or kooka, hence the script.

I found a way for this script to work with whichever sane scan device you
may have, though not perhaps the most beautiful, it works and I adapted it
to output to G4 compressed pdf to. 2 scripts which I saved to my /usr/bin
directory.

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tifscan.sh

#!/bin/sh

usage()
{
echo "Usage: tifscan {nameofimage.tif}"
}

#test to see if a filename has been entered
if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then usage ; exit 1 ; fi
name=$1

#Read output of scanimage command to get scanner device name
scanner='scanimage -f %d | sed -e 's/0/\n/g' | tail --lines=1 '

echo Now scanning your A4 document on $scanner

#scan the A4 binary(b&w) file uncompressed at 300dpi to temporary file
scanimage -d $scanner --mode binary --resolution 300 --quick-format A4
--format tiff >temp-$name

#Use tif utility to convert the temporary binary tif to a G4 compressed tif
and then delete the temporary file
tiffcp -c g4 temp-$name $name
rm -f temp-$name

# display resulting G4 tiff file
kfax $name

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pdfscan.sh

#!/bin/sh

usage()
{
echo "Usage: pdfscan {nameofimage.pdf}"
}

#test to see if a filename has been entered
if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then usage ; exit 1 ; fi
name=$1

#Read output of scanimage command to get scanner device name
scanner='scanimage -f %d | sed -e 's/0/\n/g' | tail --lines=1 '

echo Now scanning your A4 document on $scanner

#scan the A4 binary(b&w) file uncompressed at 300dpi to temporary file
scanimage -d $scanner --mode binary --resolution 300 --quick-format A4
--format tiff >temp-$name.tif

#convert to pdf with G4 compression
tiff2pdf temp-$name.tif -p A4 -q G4 -o $name

#display pdf
kghostview $name