Would Scandoc be somthing for Extragear?

Klaas Freitag freitag at kde.org
Thu Nov 10 17:00:27 GMT 2022


Hallo Volker,

Am 10.11.22 um 17:38 schrieb Volker Krause:
> On Donnerstag, 10. November 2022 12:25:26 CET Klaas Freitag wrote:
>> Am 10.11.22 um 10:09 schrieb Thomas Baumgart:
>>> I am
>>> thinking about adding a webcam interface so that KMyMoney can use it to
>>> read the QR code and use the data to fill out the form for online payments
>>> that KMyMoney already has. Or even use the PDF file as input an pull out
>>> the QR code. That would improve productivity I think.
>>
>> Well, if it was only Kraft, we would probably be better off using in the
>> PDF embedded Metadata to detect that. Having that as an OCR based
>> feature would add that more generic of course.
> 
> Right, we likely need to support all of those methods for handling arbitrary
> input documents anyway.
> 
> I'd be very interested in EPC QR sample documents to check whether ZXing and
> our PDF extractor can handle those correctly :) (EPC QR is slightly special
> due to it being text-based while defining the used text codec inside the text
> itself, that could potentially confuse content/codec auto-detection).

I created a test doc here (my hosting):
https://pjatniza.net/owncloud/index.php/s/Km8iIjLBYJHe5nY

If you need more let me know, but the QR code only encodes some quite 
"interesting" text, so it should not really change something structural 
if I'd send you another invoice or two built with Kraft. Yeah, text 
encoding maybe... ;-)

regards,
Klaas






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