Am Dienstag, den 26.09.2017, 12:00 +0000 schrieb arch-general-request@a rchlinux.org:

On 25-09-17 17:15, Stephan Fuchs via arch-general wrote:

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Hello!

I would like to ask if the program gscan2pdf could be included in the official arch repositories. There are currently no alternatives.

best regards Stephan Fuchs

Hi,

[community] repo has 3 programs that could be an alternative :

simple-scan (gtk3) scanlite (requires some kde libraries) gambas3-gb-scanner (a frontend for scanimage command, written in the programming language gambas3 )

What functionality does gscan2pdf bring that none of 3 alternatives have ?

LVV

Hi.

With all programs above I can scan - right. I can also make an PDF of the scan.

With gscan2pdf I can scan many pages at once (fledbed scanner or ADF) and convert all pages directly to PDF. In addition, OCR is performed. And a pdf is generated with the text from OCR as hocr layer. The special feature is that a searchable PDF can be created at once. As far as I know it is not possible with simple-scan nor with scanlite nor with gambas3-gb-scanner. The special thing is that I can correct then OCR Text directly before I save the file. And a few other things that simplify the work.

It is not just another scan program. It is the only program I know what allows archiving in this way. best regards Stephan