Command References

The main Toolbar

The File Menu
P File Print 	 Prints the displayed image.
File Create Directory... 	 Create a directory 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.
Q File Quit 	 Quit .

The Image Menu
G Image Open image in graphic application 	 Enter a graphics application for opening your scanned image directly. Recommended applications include The GIMP.
O Image OCR image... 	 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.
C Image OCR on selection... 	 A window will reappear for the character recognition. Here, however, the character recognition is only for the area highlighted in the final scan.
I Image Scale to Width 	 This proportionally scales the image in the large canvas to the width of the display.
H Image Scale to Height 	 Proportionately scales the image to the height of the display.
S Image Original Size 	 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.
N Image Create from selection 	 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.
V Image Mirror image vertically 	 Flip image vertically.
M Image Mirror image horizontally 	 Flip image horizontally.
B Image Mirror both directions 	 Flip image both horizontally and vertically.
R Image Rotate image clockwise 	 Rotate the image ninety degrees clockwise.
W Image Rotate image counter-clockwise 	 Rotate the image ninety degrees counterclockwise.
D Image Rotate image 180 degrees 	 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.
Picture of shortcut dialog
Click on the custom button.
Next click on the primary button.
Do CTRL X and the dialog should disappear. The keybinding is now entered.
Picture of keybinding dialog
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.
Picture of toolbars dialog
To add a button to the File toolbar,
Picture of toolbars dialog
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.
Picture of toolbars dialog

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.