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
