Decent scanning app

[Bill Davidsen]

Mark Haney 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?
> 
After fighting with xsane for months on several machines, I got iscan, 
which is bog simple but works. YMMV.

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