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Originally Posted by -Thomas-
Hey Axel,
thanks for new script, I'll give it a try as soon as I have to e another p-book.
I'm glad we have some really fast scanning/copying units standing in our university; scanning a page is about 3 times faster than with a usual scanner at home. Scanning a ~250 page book took me only about 30 minutes to scan.
I'm already thinking about a way to create a GUI for it. Generally I would just show up a dialog for the rectangle selection and the convert parameters, giving a preview for both. After setting the appropriate options I would feed them to the script to do the processing steps... do you have any other brainstorming ideas?
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I heared my university (vienna) actually developed a device for auto-scanning books, that turns pages with an air stream, they use it for extra-precious books because it is less strain the book as when turned by hand. However I don't think they will let me access it, or want to process me my books
So I'm bound to my desktop CANON Scanner.
Edit: But now that I think of it... Actually the copy service devices can scan too and are pretty fast. However AFAIK they charge for it as much as if you would print the page, but I'll check, thanks for that idea.
About the GUI, what language have you thought of? Interface, I thought it ideally would allow you to specify rectangles per page, that is on the left it shows thumbs of the pages, when you do the rectangles on the first page, it will automatically apply them to all following, but it allows you to move downward and move them on some pages... like some scans are sometimes a bit off... Language, has java all features we would need? It has at least GUI, image support and I heared pdf support also. Another crazy idea would be web-based (GWT?) application, where the processing is actually done on the server... one *can* draw rectangles with javascript/GWT (which are actually 4 divs).. I could offer one virtual host for such a service. but otherwise I'd go with everything you feel comfortable with