Comment 9 for bug 550856

@Ali

You are correct: SimpleScan has improved greatly! Now we don't have to manually crop every page of a scan, only the first page. Additionally, SimpleScan is the best scanning option for Ubuntu.

It would be more ideal for those who scan often to be able to set the preferred crop and not have to re-set it every time we do a scan (or have the crop auto-detected). This is because (1) we usually use the same scanner, (2) the page size is almost always the same (in my case, US Letter), (3) the positioning of the page on the scanner is almost always the same (if flatbed, the page is positioned in one corner of the scanner, and sheet-fed scanner also always has the same position). Also, many users will not set the crop on the first page because it is not obvious to new users that they must crop before they scan, and many users who know that they can crop before scanning forget to. If they scan without cropping, then there is no way to go back and crop all the pages that they just scanned at once, so they have to decide to either re-scan or go back through and manually crop every single page.

For occasional scanning, SimpleScan is great, but for scanning lots of documents, or documents with many pages, having to re-crop every time we scan is cumbersome. SimpleScan would be more ideal if a preferred crop could be set and remembered every time we use it, or if the cropping could be auto-detected. Being able to "bulk" crop a document after scanning would be very useful as well.