I'm waiting for one of these apps to monitor a video stream from a camera and automatically determine when a new sheet is ready to scan.
I already have a mobile app that can find the edges of the paper, crop it, and OCR all its contents. But it still needs me there as a human to tell it "the page you're pointed at now is one you haven't seen before" when that determination should be far simpler than doing OCR.
I'm waiting for the day I can aim my phone or webcam and just flip through a bunch of pages and have it scan each one as it appears. It doesn't have to be super fast like Data from TNG or Johnny Five from short circuit, I just want to go from "flip, press, flip, press, flip, press" to "flip, flip, flip"
If you don't have that much volume...just improve the physical UI. Whatever floats your boat: a foot pedal, capacitive switch, Clapper, etc.
Especially when there is no technological barrier that keeps us from having software do it automatically. I'm not going to buy gear to do something I fully expect the software to be capable of in the next year or two.
Until then, searching paper with my eyeballs once in a great while is less work than procuring and maintaining a document feeder or pressing a button three thousand times, no matter how convenient that button is.
2. I can't effectively OCR them for many non-English language (at least - unless it's made some advances in OCR for some languages for which it's lacking). Also, if I do OCR anything, I then need to correct the mistakes, which takes a h-u-g-e amount of time even when the OCR works relatively well.
- The scanned documents are stored in the filesystem in PDF format, so you can certainly access them without going through the web application.
- OCR doesn't have to be perfect, because it's just being used to locate a specific document when you need it. So if you have 1788 documents and you want to find your apartment lease, you search for "lease" and there's a very good chance that word will be found in the correct document. That's the whole point - storing documents with a low amount of manual effort, in a way that makes it very easy to find them when you need them.
Also, you can flexibly configure how it stores the actual documents. So at the end of the day if you don't like the program, it gracefully degrades to a bunch of PDFs organized into a nice folder hierarchy that's easy to back up.