Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)2d ago

Hey, it turns out that GNOME's "Document Scanner" application (Simple Scan) actually _can_ do Optical Character Recognition, running a post-processing script. It's just really, really, really not obvious (nor easy to set up): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/1#note_2713733

As a stopgap, here's my proposed UI lipstick fix just so that the existing UI's purpose can be understood: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/merge_requests/322

I'm hoping to see a built-in implementation someday.

#SimpleScan #OCR #scanning #productivity #GNOME #UX #OCRmyPDF

Integrate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) (#1) · Issues · GNOME / Document Scanner · GitLab

Submitted by Robert Ancell in bug (#782107): Automatically extract text using Optical Character Recognition. This can be stored...

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Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Mar 15

Them: "How large of a mouse cursor do you want when testing?"

Me: "Yes."

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/558

#GNOME #SimpleScan #accessibility #QA #testing #a11y

Show threadChris Mackay 🇨🇦Mar 12
@drafts @agiletortoise You had a big day of releases today! #Drafts #Terminology #Tally #SimpleScan 😎👍
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Mar 12

Another newcomer-friendly UX papercut enhancement idea for GNOME's "Document Scanner" (Simple Scan) app: providing the page cropping aspect ratio presets directly as a split menubutton for the cropping action in the toolbar: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/553

#UX #usability #GNOME #SimpleScan #scanning #paperwork

Make the cropping presets easier to discover and access, with a split crop button on the toolbar (#553) · Issues · GNOME / Document Scanner · GitLab

Current situation Simple Scan has an easter-egg feature where you can tell it to crop...

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Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Mar 8

Finally realized what has been bugging me for years with the GNOME "Document Scanner" (Simple Scan) app's cropping feature: it doesn't set the mouse cursors to indicate where and how you can interact to adjust the cropping rectangle.

I filed this issue with some hints, so that any newcomer can contribute a fix for it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/552

(BTW, there's a similar papercut in GNOME Calendar: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/963)

#UX #usability #GNOME #SimpleScan #SANE #scanning #paperwork #GNOMECalendar

AskUbuntuFeb 28

simple-scan takes 2 minutes to find scanner #networking #scanner #sane #xsane #simplescan

https://askubuntu.com/q/1564424/612

simple-scan takes 2 minutes to find scanner

simple-scan takes 2 minutes "Searching for scanner" before it finds it. Every time the app starts. Scanner is Epson ET-2800. Ethernet, not USB or SCSI. /etc/sane.d/epson2.conf specifies n...

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Show threadJeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Dec 9

Ran out of characters limit in the toot above, so here's another recently added example of a #GNOME app that would benefit from an in-app error/success notification with "Open Folder" action button: Simple Scan, the GNOME paper document scanner. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/525

#SimpleScan #SANE #paperwork #productivity

Show an in-app notification overlay for error messages or after successfully saving/exporting a file, with "Open Containing Folder" action button (#525) · Issues · GNOME / Document Scanner · GitLab

Usecase / user story As of version 49.1 (and older), the app doesn't tell you that it successfully saved/exported an...

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Show threadMonokaNov 14
@linuxallday Probably, this one application is #Gnote and #SimpleScan, which I frequently use for note-taking. All other applications that I rely on are cross-platform: #Thunderbird, #Firefox, #LibreOffice, #R, #RStudio, #Stata, #Zotero, #Xodo #PDFStudio (formerly Qoppa), #Inkscape, #Gimp, #Geany, #Zoom, #TeamsforLinux, #Webex
momoJul 10, 2025

Why did #GNOME not use the obvious phrase?

Scanning for scanners...

#simpleScan

Show threadDetlev Zundel [Team Human]May 24, 2025

@AdrianVovk @zed Well it seems that we start from different premises, and then (unsurprisingly) we reach different conclusions. For me the indication of scroll bars is information and thus absolutely no noise and thus should not be hidden.

Here is an example of where this totally fails in #Gnome - more precisely in #SimpleScan. I scanned three empty pages and the UI somehow decided to hide the horizontal scroll bars completely, showing only two of the pages: