Decent scanning app

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 13:06:44 UTC 2008


On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> I'm at my wits end here.  I've googled and looked and tried and can't find a
> decent scanning application anywhere.  Back in the F8 days I ran kooka and
> it was awesome.  Problem is, it's not actively maintained and isn't in KDE4.
>  They do have a new scan app called skanlite, but I"ve not found it in
> Fedora 9 repos (although it's possibly in a larger package like Kooka was).
>
> So, what decent scanning apps are out there?  I tried Gnomescan.  It sucked.
> There's no way to add a scanner device to it that I could see. I was going
> to go with Xsane, but wasn't sure about it.
>
> If I have to, I'll rebuild kooka for F9, but surely there's a scanning app
> in linux that is active and doesn't suck, right?

What about gscan2pdf, Mark?

Paul




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