Ubuntu
simple-scan package

Offer to number/date filename if file already exists

Bug #544108 reported by Kai Jauch on 2010-03-22

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This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Simple Scan	Invalid	Wishlist	Unassigned
	simple-scan (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: simple-scan

In offices scanning documents (in my experience) often boils down to:
1. Scan document
2. Save document as scan-###.jpg in order to archive it

Currently simple-scan always offers the filename "Scanned Document.jpg", even if it already exists.
Being able to automatically offer a sequential filename (e.g. if scan-001.jpg exists, offer scan002.jpg) would be greatly appreciated :)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 22 12:58:08 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20091209)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6400
Package: simple-scan 0.9.9-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-16-generic root=UUID=68c17dde-1bec-405b-9c58-e3a2e72a7d4d ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: simple-scan
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 12/21/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A20
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA20:bd12/21/2009:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6400:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6400
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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Kai Jauch (kaijauch) wrote on 2010-03-22:

#1

BootDmesg.txt Edit (53.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (49.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (4.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (14.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (998 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
SimpleScanLog.txt Edit (16.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (137.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (307.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2010-03-22

Changed in simple-scan (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in simple-scan:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote on 2010-07-01:

#2

Would dating the file be more useful, e.g.

Scanned Document.pdf
Scanned Document 20100701.pdf
Scanned Document 20100701-2.pdf

?

summary:

- Offer sequential filenames
+ Offer to number/date filename if file already exists

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Kai Jauch (kaijauch) wrote on 2010-07-01:

#3

That would make sense, yes.

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bojo42 (bojo42) wrote on 2010-11-01:

#4

In any case it should made sure by default that just hitting the save button doesn't overwrite files without asking. As this is still the case with 2.32 right now.

Sequential filesnames would be especially good for scanning large documents, where you need to do a lot of saving during scanning due to Bug #599643 .

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bojo42 (bojo42) wrote on 2010-11-01:

#5

From duplicate: When saving *.jpg files, the first file should already have a number attached.

For PDFs i would prefer apending numbers/dates only on the overwrite case.

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bojo42 (bojo42) wrote on 2012-02-16:

#6

With version 3.2.1-0ubuntu2 this already works quite good: you choose a filename and addtional picture scans will get numbers appended. When opening the scan dialog the first time you in deed still got presented the default filename, but you can't simply overwrite it and typing a different filename is easy enough.

Therefore i am closing it, please reopen if you still think it's a real usability issue.

Changed in simple-scan (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Invalid
Changed in simple-scan:
status:	Triaged → Invalid

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