The available image formats depend on Qt. At the moment, Qt supports the following formats:
The format JPEG is only available, if Qt was configured to support this format. The different PNM formats are: PBM (P1 or P4), PGM (P2 or P5), PPM (P3 or P6). Please read the Qt documentation for further information, especially the QImageIO class reference.
Beginning with version 0.2-alpha, the TIFF format is supported. It requires, that you have the TIFF library (libtiff) installed on your system.
When you use the XPM format, all images are transformed to 8 bit, mainly because Qt versions before 2.2.2 could not save such images with a higher depth correctly. Independend of that fact, saving huge images with a higher depth than 8 bit using the XPM format isn't a good choice. It leads to very bloated files.
QuiteInsane supports optical character recognition (okay, it's a bit
experimental:). This is done by starting gocr via QProcess. Please see
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jocr
for further information about gocr. You can start OCR by clicking the
"OCR" button in the internal viewer or by selecting "Start OCR" in the OCR menu.
This button/menu is only enabled, if you enabled OCR mode with the "Enable
OCR" toolbutton or the corresponding menu item. The ocr command has to be
specified in the options window. Please read gocrs documentation to get
more information about it's current state and limitations.
You can also use QuiteInsanes OCR mode, which starts optical character recognition directly on the scanned image.
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