Re: [gscan2pdf-help] Automated Scanning

[Russell A. <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>]

Jeff,

Most of my scanning is individual receipt images for expense
reporting. I just scanned 25 this morning, and my expectation is that
I should get the process down to two-button scanning. First click to
start, second to accept the image (or redo).

Given the bulk, file dialogs and individual names are a major problem.
I'm certain that given gscan2pdf is written in Perl it could be easily
changed to implement a auto-filename or one-click save function.

I've used a shell script in the past that saved them away with
automatic names, or another which prompted me for information like
Vendor, Date, and Amount and named them appropriately.

Until today I had a major problem with cropping which is why a GUI
tool like gscan2pdf is useful, but for batches of small files the GUI
is in the way.

This morning I wrote a new autocrop/cleanup macro for the Gimp in
script-fu with promising results. This would be an alternative to
unpaper, which seems to eat my receipts more often than not. I'd be
happy to share once I'm done debugging.

I thought I would post to see if this was a current feature request,
that perhaps I'm not the only one with this workflow. I'd also be
curious what applications are being used to organize or index scans.

Thanks.



On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:58:15PM +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:06:24AM -0600, Russell Adams wrote:
> > A common problem I've had with various scanning tools is a lack of
> > automation. Are there any planned features to add unsupervised
> > scanning?
> 
> What exactly do you mean by unsupervised scanning? What feature would
> you like to see that are not already there?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jeff



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