Feature request - Delete blank pages / hide blank pages

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alberto cartaxo
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Feature request - Delete blank pages / hide blank pages

Post by alberto cartaxo »

Hello!!!

I´d like to suggest two features:

A) delete blank pages

You have this feature on some scanners, but it would be nice to have it on software, with a black percentage feature.

B) hide blank pages.

As I´m not an native english speaker, so I´d like to diffrenciate pages from sheet: One sheet can have one page or two pages (single sided or double sided). The problem is that documents are numbered by sheets (specially legal ones), although we usually refference them as pages. Sometimes they have blank rear sided pages, sometimes they dont. It makes it difficult to navigate and refference a scanned document because of these counting.
So, it would be nice to be able to embed some pluggin that could hide the blank pages and count the pages by sheet. I could scan pages on duplex and PDF-Xchange would take care of this. Also, sheet counting would only need to be divided by two and the rearsided pages, if they have content, could have a letter to them. Page counting would be like 1, 1R, 2, 2R. (On brazil, we use V (verso) to refference them).

I know I could just use math to know on shich page I am, but I still would have the white page problem, which is pretty annoying.


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Re: Feature request - Delete blank pages / hide blank pages

Post by Patrick-Tracker Supp »

Hello alberto,

Thanks for the post. There have been feature request for this before, however, it is extremely difficult to programmatically differentiate between a blank page and a page with invisible content. There is currently a long term feature request for this, however there is no alternative solution at this time.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Patrick Charest
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