Kåre
Särs

    kare dot sars at iki dot fi

Anne-Marie
Mahfouf

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The Kipi acquire images plugin is a tool to scan images using a flat scanner.

KDE
Kipi

# Acquire Images

This plugin can be used to scan images using a flat scanner. The plugin uses libksane, a &kde; interface for SANE library to control flat scanners.

It can save images in all the formats supported by &kde;. For example the following formats:

- png (8 and 16 bits per color)

- jpeg, jpg, jpeg 2000

- bmp

You can check the status of your scanner support from the SANE project website by entering the information on this search page: http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl.

## Scanner Selection

If the selected scanner cannot be opened or if no default scanner is provided, a scanner selection dialog is opened.

The user can choose the scanner to be used and press OK to open the scanner. Pressing Cancel will cause the plugin to exit.

No scanner found
No scanner found

In case no devices were found, maybe because the scanner is not plugged in or switched off, correct that. Then the Reload device list can be used to reload the list of scanners.

Not all drivers/backends support this feature. In that case quit the plugin, connect your scanner and restart the application.

## Main Window

Main window
Main window

In the main window, the user has two sets of scan options: Basic Options and Scanner Specific Options. The Basic Options tab contains the most common parameters that the SANE scanner backends provide, while the Scanner Specific Options tab contains all the options of the backend. The options listed here depend on SANE support for your driver: libksane (which the plugin uses) should be able to display most of the types of parameters that SANE provides (analog gamma tables are not supported at this time).

Scanner Specific Options tab
Scanner Specific Options tab

The scanner specific options contains more detailed options of the backends. The plugin does not have any special handling for these options.

If you are satisfied with your settings, you can use the little arrow on the top of the options splitter. When clicked it collapses or expands the options. The collapser can overlap the preview area, but fades away when the mouse cursor moves out of the collapser.

## Scanning

To scan an image, the user can start with a preview scan and then select the part of the scan area to do the final scan on. The preview scan is started by pressing the preview button.

The Preview Button
The Preview Button

When the preview is scanned the area for the final image can be selected.

Selection and zoom
Selection and zoom

To better select the image the user can zoom in, out, to the current selection or zoom to fit the whole preview to the window.

The "zoom to fit" button
The "zoom to fit" button

When the image is selected the final image can be acquired by pressing the final scan button.

The final scan button
The final scan button

You will see the progress of the scan.

Scanning in progress
Scanning in progress

## Scanning Multiple Selections

Sometimes you need only certain parts of an image. Instead of scanning the whole picture and then using a graphics application (&eg; &kolourpaint;) to save the different image parts into separate files, use the plugins multiple selection feature.

Multiple Selections
Multiple Selections

Scan a preview and then use the &LMB; to select the first part of the image in the preview. Hover the selected area with mouse cursor and click on the green + icon to select the area. Selected areas are indicated by a red border. Now select the next parts of the image in the same way.

To remove a single selection hover the area with the mouse cursor and click on the red - icon. With Clear Selections from the context menu launched with the &RMB; all selections in a preview can be removed.

If you placed two separate images or photos on you scanner and started a preview the plugin automatically preselect the different areas.

If you are satisfied with your choice starting the final batch scan of all selections. The selected parts of the image are scanned and saved separately into different files.

## Help and Close

At the bottom of the main window you find the Help and Close buttons.

The Help button brings up the menu described in the section Help Menu of the &kde; Fundamentals. The Close button is used to exit the plugin.