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Add Pages to PDFs

GarrusVaka opened this issue · comments

commented

Would it be possible to open PDFs with this tool and add pages by scan?

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GarrusVaka

commented

Hi, thanks for the suggestion! Would you mind telling me what the story/usecase for this feature could be? I could see being able to add existing image files to a PDF, but I don't think I've ever personally needed to add images/scans to an existing PDF file, so I'm interested to hear more.

commented

I have digitised all my documents and use this wonderful app for that.

Now it occasionally happens that a change or an attachment is added to a document, which I would like to add directly to the existing PDF.

Or now and then it happens that I clicked the wrong button and instead of adding a new PDF, I started a new one.

commented

Thank you for replying, that does seem like a good use case. I've got an idea how to integrate this but I think it's gonna require quite a bit of work, importing PDF pages is a lot more complicated than just importing image files.

I'm considering taking a look at a backend rework later this year with all of the ideas that have come in so far, and I'll keep this in mind in case I go through with it.

commented

I second this feature. My use case is this: I was scanning a multi-page document and by accident pressed "Scan and start fresh", and boom - I cannot continue adding pages to the PDF that I was authoring. I had to look for another PDF merge tool to make one PDF out of two.
I generally find the buttons "Scan and add to PDF" and "Scan and start fresh" confusing. It may call for a new ticket, but in my mind, the workflow should be explicit and should be something like in most of the Office and other apps:

  • "New" - Start a new document/scan (close opened doc, warn if the last document is modified and not yet saved)
  • "Open" - Open existing PDF (close opened doc, warn if the last document is modified and not yet saved)
  • "Add" - Scan new pages and add to the end of the doc
  • "SaveAs" - (also used if never saved) - Define in what format to save and where (this calls for saving scanned pages in some lossless format so that it can be exported in any other format)
  • "Save" - with the previously selected format/location
  • Autosave (option) - save the document after every scan or page modification (I would turn it off)
  • "Close" - close opened doc