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Chapter 3. Command References

The main Kooka Toolbar

The File Menu

File->Print (Ctrl+P)

Prints the displayed image.

File->Create Folder...

Create a folder to hold your images.

File->Save Image

Save the image selected underneath the Kooka Gallery.

See the Save section for details.

File->Delete Image

Delete the image selected underneath the Kooka Gallery.

File->Unload Image

Remove the image displayed in the Image Viewer.

File->Quit (Ctrl+Q)

Quit Kooka.

The Image Menu

Image->Open image in graphic application (Ctrl+G)

Enter a graphics application for opening your scanned image directly. Recommended applications include The GIMP.

Image->OCR image... (Ctrl+O)

Start the window for optical character recognition (OCR). If you have gocr installed, then the path to it should be in the path line. This starts the character recognition for the preview image or for the highlighted area.

Image->OCR on selection... (Ctrl+C)

A window will reappear for the character recognition. Here, however, the character recognition is only for the area highlighted in the final scan.

Image->Scale to Width (Ctrl+I)

This proportionally scales the image in the large canvas to the width of the display.

Image->Scale to Height (Ctrl+H)

Proportionately scales the image to the height of the display.

Image->Original Size (Ctrl+S)

Restores the original scan size by reducing or enlarging the image in the display.

There are additional methods of scaling an image: right click the image display. Redefine the three named options and set the enlargement itself. This can also be done in the Preview window.

Image->Create from selection (Ctrl+N)

If the scanned image includes more than you want to appear in the final image, use this tool to crop your image by marking your selection in the larger image display to the right then selecting this tool. The image is cropped according to your selection. You may already be familiar with this function from The GIMP crop tool.

Image->Mirror image vertically (Ctrl+V)

Flip image vertically.

Image->Mirror image horizontally (Ctrl+M)

Flip image horizontally.

Image->Mirror both directions (Ctrl+B)

Flip image both horizontally and vertically.

Image->Rotate image clockwise (Ctrl+R)

Rotate the image ninety degrees clockwise.

Image->Rotate image counter-clockwise (Ctrl+W)

Rotate the image ninety degrees counterclockwise.

Image->Rotate image 180 degrees (Ctrl+D)

Rotates image 180 degrees.

The Settings Menu

Settings->Show Toolbar

Removes the top toolbar to give additional viewing area.

Settings->Show Statusbar

Removes the bottom statusbar to give additional viewing area.

Configuring Shortcuts

The Settings->Configure Shortcuts... allows you to specify key bindings

Below is an example of how to configure a short cut for deleting an image.



  • Click on the custom button.

  • Next click on the primary button.

  • Do CTRL X and the dialog should disappear. The keybinding is now entered.



Pressing the keys CTRL X now deletes the image selected underneath Kooka Gallery.

Configuring Toolbars

The Settings->Configure Toolbars... Is used to add additional buttons to the toolbars.



  • To add a button to the File toolbar,



    make sure Main Toolbar is displayed in the top combo box.

  • Click on one of the items in the left hand pane. This item will now have a blue background showing that it has been selected.

  • Next click on the Right arrow button to place it in the right pane.

  • Click on Apply and then click on OK

The new Item should be in the toolbar.



Configuring Kooka

The Settings->Configure Kooka...

Kooka Startup Preferences

You may want to uncheck Show the scanner selection box on next startup, if you have only one scanner. If you have only one computer you may also want to uncheck Query network for available scanners.

Thumbnail View

Here the size and the shading of the thumbnails can be adjusted; as well as the background. For example, you might want to reduce the size of the thumbnails if you are scanning many pages from a book.

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