Hello everyone, Skanpage is now in kdereview. Skanpage is a scanning application and originally a concept from Kåre Särs from approx. 5 years ago. I started to work on it late last year and now deemed it ready for a wider audience. The main user-visible difference to the existing Skanlite is that it is designed to be a dedicated multi-page scanning application with PDF export. The main technical difference is that it is using QtQuick for its interface.
My plan is to directly ask for Skanpage to be included in KDE Gear if possible once it has passed kdereview. Skanpage needs the 21.08 KDE Gear release of libksane. A lot of work has been done with the help of Kåre to untangle the QWidget-based KSaneWidget into a separate KSaneWidget and a logic interface named KSaneCore, where only the latter is used by Skanpage. The new KSaneCore component is released with 21.08. In the future, it is planned to spin off the KSaneCore component into its own library without any QWidget-dependency. Some features that are still missing from my point of view: - missing keyboard navigation - shortcut management - missing authentication for access-restricted devices - OCR (proof-of-concept available) - in the far future: a convergent interface for networked scanners on mobile devices There are tons of errors thrown when reselecting a scanner device. This seems to be an issue with Kirigami.FormLayout and the bug is reported. Also, some binding loops occur within the ScrollView, but the application still behaves. So while certainly some features are still missing, I find Skanpage to be quite useful already and an improvement over Skanlite for document scanning, especially with ADF scanners. Best regards, Alex
