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simon-knuth / scanner

An all-in-one scanner app built for the Universal Windows Platform
https://simon-knuth.github.io/scanner/index
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Allow to scan and merge into PDF everything that's in the feeder #96

Closed EvilVir closed 2 years ago

EvilVir commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I have bunch of documents to scan and I want them in one PDF. Currently Scanner app allows to scan only 10 pages a time, then I need to click "Scan and merge into PDF..." for another 10, then again for another 10 and so on.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like just click "Scan" and that all the documents in the feeder will produce one PDF, no matter how many pages are there.

simon-knuth commented 2 years ago

Hi there, I see two problems here:

  1. You want to just keep adding pages easily. When working with PDFs, the scan button often shows a little icon next to it, either a blank page (indicating that a new file will be created when you scan) or a plus. The plus indicates that everything you scan will be added to the current file. This means that you can just keep scanning pages from the feeder and they will be added to the PDF. "Scan and merge" allows you to add pages in exactly the right places, instead of just adding them to the back.

  2. You would like to scan more than 10 pages with the feeder in a single run. This has been requested a lot and I've taken a look at this issue various times, but unfortunately I won't be able to change this. When I originally wrote the app, I honestly didn't expect people to scan that many pages. Consequently, the underlying code really isn't prepared to handle many high-resolution pages in a single file and the app can get pretty slow and even unstable (depending on your PC hardware) when many pages are present. Therefore I added the 10 page limitation to discourage users from scanning too many pages. I'd recommend looking at different apps if you need to deal with many pages reliably.

EvilVir commented 2 years ago

@simon-knuth thanks for reply, I just scanned around 50 pages and everything worked fine :) But ok, I do have powerfull PC.

I like the app and it should work for me nicely, maybe consider adding extra advanced option to adjust that limitation per user, with 10 being still default?

All in all great app, I'm keeping it and thanks for writing it :)