Scan to attachment for non technical people

[cFisch]

Hello

Several times I have been asked to help people to scan (often multiple page) documents and send them via e-Mail. They mostly have a scanner and use it with business software, that has all settings already chosen for them. Then if they want to scan something without that software they fail at choosing the right external application. And then they have almost no clue what all the different file types are.

In the New Message window under the attachments dropdown menu, please can you add a scanner dialog that is simple to use even for non technical people. Especially for choosing the right file type and quality settings. Add a handful of choosen presets like for text or photos, and a easy representation (maybe stars) of quality vs. file size.

Here in germany FAX machines are still popular. I think one of the reasons this is that their workflow is pretty straight forward. If I think about it, a modern IT equivalent to that would be an e-Mail client that can directly scan into attachments. In that context i wonder why this has not been implemented like decades ago.

[Jon]

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