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Kooka was removed from kde 4 some time ago. I think that an intuitive, easy to use scan and OCR is something that KDE 4 need.

Kooka was nice but I like even more the current state of skanlite. It is very easy, fast and automatic if wanted.

I use it a lot to scan comics and articles just by placing them to scanner and pressing "scan". Autosaving to wanted directority and wanted format makes it fast. Altought it should have threaded functionality so saving a 600DPI full A4 scan does not take long when using PNG format. Now it halts the skanlite for that time.

About OCR support I have not a clue.

KDE4 definetly needs a simple scan app. OCR support is welcome as well.

no need to reinvent a wheel.
There are already exists not bad cuneiform OCR, which needs some love and maintaining.
Moreover, they have a cuneiform-QT backend, but it's a bit primitive.
So,
1. make a good KDE backend for cuneiform, using klibs such as klibsane. probably KIPI plugins for image adjustments before OCR + file managers integration, etc.
2. maintain an engine part of OCR
3. ...
4. profit.

Marked as submitted: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192302

mandachuva wrote:KDE4 definetly needs a simple scan app. OCR support is welcome as well.

For OCR, I can recommend tesseract plus http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/OC ... ent=121289

Depending on your needs it may not be perfect but I have had great results with it (granted, I've only needed to use OCR for English documents. I don't know how well it works for other languages).

How about Skanlite?

Skanlite doesn't have OCR for me.

It does not have OCR but scanning capabilities are great and easy. The OCR functions could be integrated to it as well someway.