Am 09.11.22 um 20:22 schrieb Nate Graham:
Hello,
very interesting, seems we had a similar idea.
I wanted it even simpler for the every day office with one (and exactly
one) scanner - with less options for (pot. confused) users.
I wrote a tool called PDF Quirk: https://dragotin.github.io/quirksite/
It is also in production for quite some time with good success.
regards,
Klaas
Have you checked out Skanpage? It does PDF scanning, including creating
multi-page PDF documents out of the scanned files. It also integrates
with the Purpose framework to offer a simple "Share" menu that lets you
email scanned documents very quickly.
Nate
On 11/9/22 06:32, Tobias Leupold wrote:
Hi all!
Nowadays, sending PDFs of scanned documents via email or uploading them
somewhere has become a recurring task. For years, I was using shell
scripts to
kind-of automate scanning, doing some post-processing and conversion
-- after
a fashion. But I thought that there should be some more
straightforward tool
for this.
The known general-purpose scanning applications we have didn't do what I
wanted to. So, at the beginning of the year, I started to write a quite
specialized scanning program whose only purpose is to make scanning
documents
and turning them into a PDF file as easy as possible.
The result is Scandoc. It currently lives at
https://invent.kde.org/tleupold/scandoc
The Readme contains a description of what it is. It uses KSaneCore to
access a
scanner and runs (by default well-known) helper programs to
post-process the
scanned pages and save them as a PDF file. By default, ImageMagick's
convert
tool is invoked for the colour/sharpness/gamma post-processing and TeX
Live's
pdfjam is used for the PDF conversion. However one can use any CLI helper
program or script for those tasks. E.g. the repository contains an
example
script to output searchable PDFs by using the Tesseract OCR engine.
Scandoc has been used for half a year in production now in my (dentist's)
office, and -- from what I heard from the (of course by now only few)
users --
it makes this very task of creating PDF files from documents a lot
easier and
can be used quite conveniently.
I thus wondered if this would be something we could need in Extragear.
At least, I wanted to share this with you, maybe, someone may find
this useful
:-)
Cheers, Tobias
