Does it still require you to press a button to tell it every single time it's pointed at a new sheet of paper?
I'm waiting for one of these apps to monitor a video stream from a camera and automatically determine when a new sheet is ready to scan.
I already have a mobile app that can find the edges of the paper, crop it, and OCR all its contents. But it still needs me there as a human to tell it "the page you're pointed at now is one you haven't seen before" when that determination should be far simpler than doing OCR.
I'm waiting for the day I can aim my phone or webcam and just flip through a bunch of pages and have it scan each one as it appears. It doesn't have to be super fast like Data from TNG or Johnny Five from short circuit, I just want to go from "flip, press, flip, press, flip, press" to "flip, flip, flip"
If you have so much paper volume that pressing a button is tedious, you should be using a scanner with an ADF. Fujistu makes a bunch and they've been on the market so long that finding a used one for less money is pretty easy.
If you don't have that much volume...just improve the physical UI. Whatever floats your boat: a foot pedal, capacitive switch, Clapper, etc.
It's not half important enough to me to justify buying more equipment.
Especially when there is no technological barrier that keeps us from having software do it automatically. I'm not going to buy gear to do something I fully expect the software to be capable of in the next year or two.
Until then, searching paper with my eyeballs once in a great while is less work than procuring and maintaining a document feeder or pressing a button three thousand times, no matter how convenient that button is.
I'm waiting for one of these apps to monitor a video stream from a camera and automatically determine when a new sheet is ready to scan.
I already have a mobile app that can find the edges of the paper, crop it, and OCR all its contents. But it still needs me there as a human to tell it "the page you're pointed at now is one you haven't seen before" when that determination should be far simpler than doing OCR.
I'm waiting for the day I can aim my phone or webcam and just flip through a bunch of pages and have it scan each one as it appears. It doesn't have to be super fast like Data from TNG or Johnny Five from short circuit, I just want to go from "flip, press, flip, press, flip, press" to "flip, flip, flip"