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.
--Mike