Friday, June 1, 2012

Managing scanned input

Freecode.com and SourceForge and GitHub all agree: there's no such thing as an open-source scanner manager.  And that seems like such a no-brainer - the utilities that come with scanners uniformly suck for any practical purpose.

What I'd like would be something that would just sit there and assemble my scanned input into either (1) a multipage TIFF document or Word document or ... you know, something, or (2) put each file, dated, into a directory, or yeah, (3) open it up in an editor, but still dated in a directory by default instead of calling it "Lastscan.jpg".

And apparently nobody has done that.  There are some APIs, and the "SANE project" (which says a Windows port is underway, with a link to oblivion), but no simple little GUI tool.  Also, a link to the TWAIN group itself.  (TWAIN = Technology Without An Interesting Name, ha.) And Github finds me something called an Aljex client.

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