Would Scandoc be somthing for Extragear?

[Tobias Leupold]

Am Mittwoch, 9. November 2022, 20:59:15 CET schrieb Klaas Freitag:
> 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.

That is essentially what my old document scanning script did -- using the same 
tools. But without a GUI of course. Nice idea! Seems like I'm not the only one 
who worked on getting this very task done as easy as possible ;-)

> 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