Very nice program, Wanted to get a feel for Features and Feature Requests

[Michael Shuman]

Hello,

I just started to try out NAPS2.

I really like what I see.

I am just curious about features and requessting features.

I know that there is an inundation of feature requests and everyone thinks their feature is the best to add.

But I was wondering how this program is being developed. Where do feature Requests lie as far as developement goes? Are there a lot of bug fixes or is there time to add features is there enough participation in coding to get new features?

I did submit a feature request.

https://sourceforge.net/p/naps2/tickets/633/

My holy Grail is to find a scanning program that will with a duplex scanner put both sides that are scanned of a document within a single image file. Driver Licenses, Business Cards, Insurance Cards, loyalty cards IMO could really benefit from being in just one Jpeg or other Image File and not on seperate pages for the format that supports seperate pages.

I would also like to know if I am missing ta way to do that now easily withing the program or Command line?

Thank's Keep up the good work.

[The Librum]

Like you, I am looking at NAPS2. I am not NAPS.

A couple of comments on your Holy Grail.

We have four 'card readers', that scan both side. 1) Expensive, $xx,xxx range. 2) Proprietary interfaces on all, locking you into their scanning software. 3) Card damage.

Our 'good enough' solution was 1) find a drop-through scanner that does not bend the paper. Fujitsu. 2) construct a 'carrier page' which is an 8.5 x 11 piece of plastic with a window bag (zip lock) glued into the middle.. 3) Scan normal, jpg in a pdf. 4) using a script made from ImageMagick components, we crop the images in the pdf. After cropping, two images show in one 'view' in the pdf readers. If you insist on combining images into 'contact' or 'proof' pages, I remember there are such scripts in the various ImageMagic archives.

Hope it helps.

[Michael Shuman]

Thanks for the reply.

I am hopping for the feature in the scanning process. I am surprissed that this has not been a feature yet.

I have clients in Healthcare that need to scan Id's Driver Licenses and Health Cards, Medicade Cards and such.

One Client is an Orthopaedic Surgeon's Office. Given the fact the only time you need a specoialist like this is a one off deal. Low repeat Business and come Monday's and Tuesdays can have 10+ new patients in the dyas mix from peoples "Weekend Fun" Broken bones and strained musces from that trampline.

So currently they have DocketPort 667s. The Docetscan that came with it is set for custom page siize of 4"x6 1/2" and they start the scan and pull the ID out the back and put it back in for other side. That is what their EHR company provided as the routine.

When you have an office with a lot of new patients, Having to do all paper work including scanning two optical scan sheets too. Pulling together the PAC Reports and images you can see that is a lot of work to be done. So scanning 2-3 items like Driver License, Insurance and suplimentary info and nt scan and let it go through and finish is less multitasking being able to be done.

It is a small amount of time saved but it adds up if they can put the Card in the scanner press "Go" and do something else and then import it into EHR when scan is done and they finished another task in the process.

Last is that I find it horible that Ambir which holds the market on these compact card scanners and merket them under Ambir, Docketport, and Inuvio very rarely releases new versions of their free scanner software and charge huge amounts for their commercial software with more features than needed.

I would love to able to adopt NAPS2 get Duplex scanners and have the company make donations to have something that is being worked/focused on instead of an afterthought.

As an aside note Healthcare is a dblance of what works and staying within HIPAA. EHR companies are conservative.

We have a "picture for file" included and they still only recomend as certified for the system 2 Logitech Camera's that are 15 years old. We actually have Logitech Orbit AFs which was released 2007 and are newer and the last time the software was updated was 2012. The Older Camera's recommended software is not compatable beyond XP a HIPAA No No to be running XP and Windows 7 when it Twilights. So it is also piece of mind to be able to have software that people care about and not have to unneccisarrily spend more money than needed to replace it and equipement and routines because companies quit developing or under develope for profits sake.