Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.1) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages KOffice, and especially Krita, needs a good SANE-frontend. This could be for example Kooka, but it needs to be integrated into Krita. GIMP solves this by File->Aquire Picture->XSane and starts XSane. But XSane is the most ugly GUI ever and should not be used, I think. The OpenOffice 2-Project provides its own GUI and talks with SANE itself.
Up to now, we use the scanner tool integrated in koffice. I've never seen it because I don't own a scanner anymore. There's another bug about our scanner integration; I should look it up. But it's not something I'll be able to fix soon because I cannot test it.
I have a scanner, I will try to improve the current scanning tool.
source of inspiration, other than kooka : http://sourceforge.net/projects/quiteinsane
at least, I did plug my scanner on my computer :) so I am in position and willing to start working on this. So lets agree on the list of what the plugin should do: - allow the selection of the scanner (not that people usually have a lot of them pluged to their computer, but sane thinks that my tv card is a scanner, so it seems that I looks like I have two devices...) - allow to select the resolution and if scanning in color or gray (8 or 12bits) - have a preview area, and the possibility to select a rectangle on it to limit the scaned size (with an automatic detection of the area) - and a "final" button that close the dialog and create the layer I think it is all we need, am I correct ?
- Contrast/Saturation...-settings? - Output-fileformat (png, jpg...) - Where to put the scanned files - OCR-interface ("frontend" to gocr et al) - DPI-Settings
"Output-fileformat (png, jpg...)" "Where to put the scanned files" is for a kooka like application, for scanning within krita, the scanned image is added as a layer to the current image where you can tweak the "Contrast/Saturation...-settings" using krita's filters. As for OCR, it's something for kword or kpresenter.
Hehe, this bug is specific for Krita, sorry. I promise to drink more coffee from now on. Yes, you are of course right. Still, DPI is very important :)
I've go a parallel scanner. If needed I can test the code ;) .
Oh, and 16 bit/channel image acquisition -- but libkscan and thus the koffice scan plugin don't support it.
*** Bug 128746 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I don't have a working scanner, and until I do, I don't feel like working on that.
Well, the Krita Pledgie is 400€ over goal, I am sure the donors wouldn't mind if you bought a 50€ scanner if this results in code. I certainly wouldn't. :-)
The kde sane frontends are still limited to 8 bits/channel, and sane.h looks pretty insane to me...
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Given the lack of cross-platform scanner integration solutions, we're not going to implement this.