Sorry for top post.
It's not a driver issue -- all the xsane stuff works fine with the scanner, a v600 photo. It's configuring Kooka to arrive at a sensible workflow, which is easy with the Epson software and which probably could be sorta easy with Kooka. Part of the problem is that Kooka puts things in places you'd never look. Understandable in that nobody seems to have gone over it in >20 years. And uses what look like editable text boxes that aren't, with the things you'd edit there off in the file menu. Wish I could turn off about half of it -- what good is a thumbnails box in a scanning program? Totally nutty UI design. And putting the scans in a hidden directory??? But it will let you throw the scans to GIMP, which is something. And I guess I can make the hidden scans directory a symlink to something sensible, though it ought to be editable in the settings. As should turning off whatever makes the scan the size of a basketball court when you scan at fairly high resolution. But as I said, it's been what it is for a very long time -- longer than xsane has supported Epson anything -- so I have no room to complain.
The argument for VueScan is that it lets you do really fine tuning. With Kooka, I'll need to mash it down as gray as possible and sort it out in GIMP, so I don't lose highlight or shadow detail. (The Epson software, when it runs, has defaults for the scanner that are very close, as it should.)
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-------- Original Message -------- On 9/17/25 05:09, Martin Hodges via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
On 17/09/2025 10:54, Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
On Wednesday 17 September 2025 09:06:17 dep via tde-users wrote:
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
.trinity/share/apps/ScanImages
quite unusual place, but one I made a link from that to some more usual place it works.
Has anybody used it? I would consider VueScan, which by all accounts is excellent but which is $150, and that sucks.
It may depend on the scanner. Epson Perfection V39/GT-S650 here. Vuescan (I have an oooold license, would not pay again) requires some Epson driver that did not work on my machine.
I have something similar. Epson have updated the driver packages for Linux. It is worth persevering. If the Epson utility does not work then I doubt if the Vuescan will either. ldd is your friend for finding missing library dependancies.
http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModule
Kooka works. I mostly use the Epson Scan 2 however. I don't use the flat scanner much, mostly a ScanSnap which does scan groups of pages.
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