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User guide
When you first visit Delve in your web browser, you'll see a topbar with links to Scanners, Documents, and Pages.
You'll also see a button marked "Scan something now". As you haven't set up a scanner yet, this will take you to the New Scanner page. Once set up, this button will act as a shortcut to acquiring an image from the first scanner on the list (if you have more than one)
The New Scanner page has two boxes. The first is simply a label for your scanner - you may put whatever you like here.
The second is the device URL as reported by SANE. Eventually, this will be an autogenerated list, but for now you can run "scanimage -L" to list all the scanners the system knows about, and put the string into the URL field. For example:
[root@citrine delve]# scanimage -L
device `hpaio:/usb/Photosmart_C4500_series?serial=CN96JK32SB057K' is a Hewlett-Packard Photosmart_C4500_series all-in-one
then I would put "hpaio:/usb/Photosmart_C4500_series?serial=CN96JK32SB057K" into Delve's configuration.
Once you have a scanner, you will have an Acquire button on the Scanners page (and on the home page, as noted above). Clicking this will trigger the scanner to grab an image, which will be stored on the Pages index, using a timestamp as the filename. You can repeat this Acquire process for each page in your document.
Once you have scanned all the pages in your document, go to the Documents link in the top bar, and click New Document. You will be presented with:
- Name: the name of the Document (e.g "House insurance for 2013")
- Location: the location of the hardcopy in your filing system (e.g. Study Cabinet 1 Drawer 1). You can leave this blank to indicate that you destroyed the hardcopy after the scan.
- Tags: a comma-separated list of tags to apply to this document. The tag cloud is displayed on the New, Edit, and Index Document pages to help you see what tags you've used in the past. Examples might be "tax", "insurance", "payslip", "info" etc.
- Page selector: A list of pages which are not yet associated with any Documents
The Page selector currently lists filenames (i.e timestamps) which is not very useful. A thunmbnail-based selector is planned for the future. For now, simply scan all pages in one document, then create the document using all the unassigned pages.
Search is extremely limited at the moment - the only implemented method is to filter on tags by clicking the appropriate tag in the tag cloud. More searching will come later.
Click Delete on any Document will delete the Document, the associated Pages, and the scanned images from the filesystem.
Should you decide to rescan a badly scanned page from a multipage document, first simply re-Aqcuire the page, add it to the Document using Edit Document. Then go to the Pages index and find the old page. Click Delete button and the Page will be unlinked from the Document and it's image on the filesystem will be deleted.