I want to write a system for handling important documents in my home. This is the user story for getting a new document:
- I "Add new document" and am prompted to scan it using my combined printer/scanner.
- I view the scanned copy to see it s of good enough quality. Which it has.
- The system tells me to mark it with number N, which I do. I also enter title, document type, description and when the document is no longer needed to be stored (could be never to always keep it).
The problem is accessing the scanner. I do not know what the smoothest way is. Ideally it would support "all" scanners through some kind of standard interface. I do not know if that even exists. Should I do this in Java, Python or something else?
My primary platform is Linux. But if it worked on Windows too, that would be nice. If I manage to create something useful I ll release it as GPL, so it s for a good cause too. ;-)
Thank you for reading!