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[Feature]: improve usability of Scanner

Open Imajicus opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Description

There are so many button presses necessary to scan only one single document page: plus, take photo, crop, accept. This should be simplified somehow. What also contributes to the problem is that the buttons are scattered all over the display, e.g. Accept at the top, the rest scattered at the bottom. At least these buttons for the subsequent steps should be in the same place so that you can click through quickly without having to think too much. If you scan 100 pages at a time, you will quickly realize how inefficient the operation is. Please improve this. Thank you.

Imajicus avatar Oct 19 '24 11:10 Imajicus

This. This is exactly what I thought today when scanning my documents.

I need to tap so many times, and the accept button after croping is on the top, so I cant just keep holding phone in one hand and tap with my thumb and handle papers with other hand - either need to reposition my phone or use other hand.

Surely this could be improved.

mjack3k avatar Feb 09 '25 13:02 mjack3k

i thought paperless mobile could solve my problem with document scanning currently i use https://github.com/Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner for scan and then i press share and see https://github.com/qcasey/paperless_share which stupid uploads the pdf

if i press share i saw that paperless mobile is there too but noting happen.

i think you can take the code of the scanner app to improve the paperless mobile scanner feature and improve that if i share a pdf with the paperless mobile app that it uploads the pdf

https://github.com/Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner/blob/master/LICENSE -> MIT https://github.com/qcasey/paperless_share/blob/main/LICENSE -> GPL

ScharadaValcta avatar Apr 18 '25 03:04 ScharadaValcta