GNOME Scan

Hi everybody,

The end of th Google SoC 2007 does not mean the end of development. I wish every GNOME students will continue to contribute and develop. Of course, i will continue Gnome Scan. Here is some stuff for Gnome Scan futur.

• mid September : 0.5.2 including resurected Gimp plugin, printing and bugfixes.
• end October : 0.5.3 including processing and improved preview area.
• Christmas : libgnocr development should begin in order to get advanced OCR API and UI for Gnome. This will allow to update AbiScan plugin.

This is a rought roadmap, but it shows what i have in mind for Gnome Scan and OCR in Gnome.

I also have a bunch of random feature to implement :

• scan from PDF (using poppler-glib ?)
• scan to mail
• capplet (calibration, color correction, etc.)
• evolution plugin (scan to vCard)
• gthumb/f-spot plugin (scan to albums)
• deskew for everyone
• bindings in python, C++ (for abiscan), vala, C# (for f-spot), …
• hotplug with HAL (needs huge discussion and work with SANE people).
• network sharing (again)
• …

Stay tuned 🙂

Étienne.