Automatically recognize PaperSize during Scan [Paperless Office]

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patrickm
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Automatically recognize PaperSize during Scan [Paperless Office]

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My use case is automated scanning of documents. This means that color, blank pages, paper size are recognized automatically.

Unfortunately the automatic PaperSize setting during scanning doesn't work reliably with recognizing the the paper size and for example creates a legal + length document for a letter size one.
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An alternative would be to use the crop tool afterwards but it doesn't have an automated way to recognize the page size but requires settings for just one particular page at a time:
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So my feature request is to improve one of those features so scanning can become more automatic.

Thank you!
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Re: Automatically recognize PaperSize during Scan [Paperless Office]

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Hello, patrickm

We are working on improvements to the crop tool which will allow us to shave off "mostly blank" sections of images from the edges of the page, but this is an extremely complicated function and is something that is considered long term at the moment.

As for the scanning process. This is heavily dependent on the scanner. If there is a very close (but not smaller) paper size available, we will prefer to use that, however, if the sheet gets scanner and there is a momentary jam in your scanner which results in the letter sheet being a small bit taller than a letter sheet should be, it will "round up" so to speak. There isnt really a way around this as we do not know at this point what is or isnt needed for the file, nor do we know which end of the page to "shave off" when this happens. Many legal documents have a large amount of blank space at the tops and bottoms of each sheet, enough that the actual content could just squeeze onto a letter sheet, if we made assuptions based on where the whitespace ends, we could end up doing the opposite of what you want.

While some people might find these possibilities acceptable, others will not, and missing data is significantly harder to resolve than there being a bit too much blank space.

Kind regards,
Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
Tracker Software Products (Canada) LTD

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