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4.6 Scanning
Simple Scan
Simple Scan is a GTK-based front-end for SANE primarily developed by
Robert Ancell and intended to replace XSane. Simple Scan landed on
desktops in the Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 release, so now's a good time to take a
look at the new kid on the scanning block.
Simple Scan lives up to its name. Simple Scan will scan in photos at 300
DPI, or text documents at 150DPI. Photos and text are the only presets
available. The DPI can be changed via the Preferences dialog. In fact, that's
nearly all that can be changed, along with the scan source if more than one
scanner is attached to the system. Once preferences are saved, you can
choose to scan in a single page, or all pages if you happen to have a scanner
with a document feeder.
Simple Scan does a one-shot process and simply scans in the entire area.
After this, the user can crop the picture if desired. This is much easier if one
wants to scan in something that takes up the entire tray, but can cause a
scan to take longer in practice if you're working at a high DPI and only wish
to capture a small part of it. If you're scanning in, say, several old family
photos it makes more sense to just scan an entire tray and do the cropping
in The GIMP or another application.
Simple Scan makes it easy to scan in a document and send it as an email.
Once a document is scanned in, just select Email from the File menu and
Simple Scan will open a new email with the scan as an attachment. At least
that's what will happen if you're using Evolution as the default mailer on
GNOME. If you're using Thunderbird or another mailer, this doesn't work so
well. Simple Scan will start a new email, but without the attachment. When
selecting email, Simple Scan will always default to PDF. At the moment
there appears to be no way to change this. That might be desirable for
forms, but not so much for pictures.
Editing within Simple Scan is limited to cropping and rotation. When saving
scans, users are limited to JPEG, PNG, and PDFs. Simple Scan is really a nofrills tool that just does the most basic scanning operations.
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