On 9/17/25 04:04, Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
On Wed September 17 2025 00:06:17 dep via tde-users wrote:
I have a need to scan in a bunch of pictures and documents using my Epson photo scanner. As is not unexpected, the reasonably good Epson-supplied scanning software core dumps. So I've looked at the other installed scanning software, which is xsane, which kinda-sorta works, Simple Scan, ditto, and Kooka, almost ditto.
Kooka shows some hope, but it seems really flaky. For a start, it wants to put scans in "Kooka Gallery," but there is none such on my machine, so I can't tell where the hell it's putting them, though it seems to be saving them somewhere. I decided to RTFM, and right from the start, the screen shown does not at all resemble the Kooka I am running. I thought it might help to nuke ~.config/kookarc, but there isn't one.
Has anybody used it? I would consider VueScan, which by all accounts is excellent but which is $150, and that sucks.
FWIW I gave up scanning with software from my HP printer/scanner and now I just scan to a USB stick and then mount the USB stick in my laptop.
While I scan using xscan and the brother driver for my elderly MFC-J6920DW, a fast inkjet printer that can handle tabloid sized materiel in both printer and scanner with an adf, getting copies on photo paper I can't tell from the original. Brother stuff, using brothers linux drivers, just works for every feature advertised on the box. But you must remove cups-browsed as it overrides the brother drivers.
--Mike
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.