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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: GSoC idea: improving scanning and OCR in KDE (skanlite/kooka)
From:       todd rme <toddrme2178 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-03-07 9:59:50
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 07.03.12 10:23:32, todd rme wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Klaas Freitag <freitag@kde.org> wrote:
>> > On 06.03.2012 18:02, todd rme wrote:
> [...]
>> > These kind of things. Not sure if a kio is cool for any of these.
>>
>> A gui able to do all the things you listed would necessarily be
>> extremely complicated and likely difficult to use, unless most of the
>> tasks were automated push-button affairs. =A0In the latter case, there
>> is little advantage over a kio slave. =A0I would think that a kio slave
>> would be more natural, since users would not need to know terminology
>> or the menu structure.
>
> Maybe I didn't use enough of the more fancy kio-slaves, but I have a
> hard time imagining how I'd be able to use this with say konqueror. I'd
> go to
>
> kscan://<scannername>/
>
> And then see whats been scanned, but how do I initiate a scan? Do I need
> to go to some special url? If so, how do I trigger the OCR creation
> after scanning?

To activate a scan of an image, you either drag the image file in the
kio slave to another folder, or you open it in a program (either by
clicking or using the right-click menu).  In the case of dragging it
to a folder, it will be automatically scanned and saved in the
destination folder without the user needing to do anything else.  In
the case where you open it in a program, it will probably be scanned
to a temporary folder or stored in memory and then opened in the
program, once again without the user doing anything else.

In the case of OCR, it would be the same, except a temporary image
file woulds be scanned, OCRed, and deleted (or again stored in
memory).

This, at least, is how the CD kio slave does it.

-Odd

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