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[DrKay <550856@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@Ali

You are correct: SimpleScan has improved greatly! Now we don't have to
manually crop every page of a scan, only the first page. Additionally,
SimpleScan is the best scanning option for Ubuntu.

It would be more ideal for those who scan often to be able to set the
preferred crop and not have to re-set it every time we do a scan (or
have the crop auto-detected). This is because (1) we usually use the
same scanner, (2) the page size is almost always the same (in my case,
US Letter), (3) the positioning of the page on the scanner is almost
always the same (if flatbed, the page is positioned in one corner of the
scanner, and sheet-fed scanner also always has the same position). Also,
many users will not set the crop on the first page because it is not
obvious to new users that they must crop before they scan, and many
users who know that they can crop before scanning forget to. If they
scan without cropping, then there is no way to go back and crop all the
pages that they just scanned at once, so they have to decide to either
re-scan or go back through and manually crop every single page.

For occasional scanning, SimpleScan is great, but for scanning lots of
documents, or documents with many pages, having to re-crop every time we
scan is cumbersome. SimpleScan would be more ideal if a preferred crop
could be set and remembered every time we use it, or if the cropping
could be auto-detected. Being able to "bulk" crop a document after
scanning would be very useful as well.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550856

Title:
  Use page size in settings as default crop

Status in Simple Scan:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  This is my very first bug report. I hope it's useful. ;-)

  There should be no manual cropping after scanning multiple pages with
  ADF.

  Simple-Scan knows the default page size from the settings menu.
  Probably the only additional information needed is the alignment of
  the page related to the whole scan area.

  Perhaps printing and scanning a predefined testpage could automate the
  alignment process.

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