Re: Paperwork : a personal document manager (scanned and PDFs)

[jflesch gmail com]

2 mai 2017 17:30 "Bastien Nocera" <hadess hadess net> a écrit:

> Hey,
>
> On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 12:54 +0000, jflesch gmail com wrote:
>
> > First of all, I want to thank you all for your comments and
> > feedbacks. I wasn't really expecting such a nice welcome :-)
> >
> > Regarding the HIG, you can actually also thank Mathieu Jourdan ( http
> > s://github.com/mjourdan ). He has been providing me with awesome
> > mockups.
> >
> > Regarding the goals, I think we can agree it would be best to keep
> > Gnome documents, simple-scan and Paperwork separated, at least for
> > now:
> >
> > - Simple-scan: For me, the way I see it, it's more of a general scan
> > application. It can do wonder, but my understanding is that it's not
> > intended as a document manager. For instance, I used it to scan this
> > drawing : https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/135331/22778343
> > e449f9c2-eeb6-11e6-9edc-ece6f372d147.png . Scanning it with Gnome
> > Documents or Paperwork wouldn't have make sense.
> > - Gnome Documents: Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems mostly
> > focused at electronics documents (.odt, .pdf, etc).
> > - Paperwork: As stated previously, it has a very clear focus on paper
> > documents. PDFs are mostly a side-effect so people don't have to
> > switch between document managers all the time. It's also intended to
> > let the users do as little as possible .. and some people just don't
> > want that (I got a bunch of tickets over time regarding putting
> > titles on documents ...). So, while its goal may overlap Gnome
> > Documents, I don't think one size fits all here.
>
> If I could give you a piece of advice, it would be to try and share the
> maximum amount of code with simple-scan and what would become the
> GNOME-ified version of it. That is, start by hacking on simple-scan for
> all the "simpler" stuff, making sure to split off the bits you want to
> reuse, like the scanning, calibrating, and cropping UI, the OCR
> support, and the system-wide configuration, if that happens.
It makes sense.
Since simple-scan is written in vala/C and Paperwork in Python 3, I guess any common ground would have to be 
written in C/GObject. It's going to take time ... Not sure if I will ever enough free time to do everything I 
would like to :-)


> In the longer term, that would mean that you would get more people
> working on this portion of the code, so more eyeballs, maintenance, and
> features "for free" for your application. I could also see this part as
> very interesting to integrate into other GNOME-ish applications, such
> as the GIMP, or Inkscape, in the longer term.
>
> OCRFeeder is also another project that you could be interested in
> looking at, it's an OCR application for GNOME, though it's not in the
> "highly maintained" category.
>
> Cheers