> > ... > >> Assuming this is actually a good fit for Gnome, I'm not sure where to >> start either. Any indications would be welcome. >> > > It looks to me like Paperwork probably has a specific set of use cases > involved - particularly someone who scans lots of text documents. > Concentrating on that use case seems like a perfectly good goal to me. > > Not necessarily, but take into account a very practical option when scanning documents (OCR). When I made my comment earlier I was thinking about the new applications to scan documents for mobile devices, especially the new features of Dropbox <https://www.dropbox.com/help/mobile/document-scanning>
> I'm not 100% confident where GNOME's strategy is long-term in this area > and would be happy to discuss it with you (just call into #gnome-design > whenever you want). One thing that having a standalone scanning utility (in > the shape of Simple Scan) does give us is the ability to scan different > types of documents, that might end up in different places. Likewise, while > we may want to look at Documents' role in the future, it does fit well into > the triumvirate of Documents/Photos/Music. :) > > I usually use the scanner a lot to digitize documents for backup or to facilitate their sending via e-mail or instant messaging. When I mentioned adding the feature in gnome-documents I did not do it thinking about how GNOME is doing things and maybe an application like simple-scan can solve the problem. With the above I mean that the applications of gnome (core apps) should have an option to add files from external sources and I think gnome-photos will be able to add photo from cameras. I think a button to add files from external sources is necessary, for example: Add documents from an external hard drive or pendrive to gnome-documents (copy it to the documents folder) or from a scanner (start an external application as simple-scan) . Something similar can happen from audio devices (eg iPod) for gnome-music or images/videos from a webcam (Cheese) to gnome-photos/videos (totem), etc. Probably with gnome-photos the problem of how to import different type of content will be addressed, since cameras can store photos and videos whose contents have different applications in gnome. A similar problem would occur with the scanned documents, since according to their format they will be displayed in gnome-documents or gnome-photos (even if they are not photographs) and it is something that I love about paperwork. With some integration to add scanned documents to gnome-documents it would be possible for them to appear as documents in spite of their format and not as photos. -- *Hugo*
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