ADF Seperation

[SnowJuli]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I noticed that when scanning with my Officejet 3830, that when I use the ADF Scanning feature and it uploads the scan to paperless as one document. Which is very unfortunate when I fill up multiple pdfs as content from some random folder I have in my shelves :D

Describe the solution you'd like
An Environment Flag would be nice to automatically seperate the documents into multiple ones before uploading to paperless.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Exchanging the documents one-by-one is very annoying but a workaround.

Additional context
Is it even possible? Or is this an HP limitation?

[manuc66]

Hi @SnowJuli

I understand your issue. The current behavior of node-hp-scan-to is indeed intended to closely resemble the original hp. For use cases that differ from yours, it can be convenient to have the option to compile multiple pages of the same topic into a single document.

This is not a limitation of the hp devices, as the PDF is not generated by the device itself, but rather by node-hp-scan-to. In reallity I see that I took a design decision to always send pdf to paperless and to always group the scan item into one single pdf.

I think it could be fixed by adding some additional conditional logic here:

node-hp-scan-to/src/scanProcessing.ts

Lines 446 to 463 in d7ff268

	displayJpegScan(scanJobContent);
	if (scanConfig.paperlessConfig) {
	const pdfFilePath = await mergeToPdf(
	folder,
	scanCount,
	scanJobContent,
	scanConfig.directoryConfig.filePattern,
	scanDate,
	!scanConfig.paperlessConfig.keepFiles,
	);
	if (pdfFilePath) {
	await uploadToPaperless(pdfFilePath, scanConfig.paperlessConfig);
	await fs.unlink(pdfFilePath);
	console.log(
	`Pdf document ${pdfFilePath} has removed from the filesystem`,
	);
	} else {
	console.log(

.

It would then preserve the two possibilities:

• sending all the document in the adf in one single document if you choose pdf as a target
• sending all the codument in the adf in multiple pdf files if you choose image as a target

Best regards.

[SnowJuli]

Hello @manuc66 and thanks for your fast reply!

Good to know that its not a HP Limitation and that it could be possible. I would really like some possibility in the future but don't feel pressured just because one person requested it :D
You are doing an amazing work but unfortunately I'm not really fluent in TypeScript so I would rely on other people who have more experience.

Anyways, thanks for your reply and I'll look forward to a change in the future.

[manuc66]

@SnowJuli Are you able to give it a try ?

[SnowJuli]

Sure, how can I test it?

[manuc66]

Just pull the new docker image

[manuc66]

I'm closing the issue, it should be fixed with latest docker image, if not working let me know