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I love paperless-ngx but I wish it had a rotate button. Some of my document scans are upside down.

• diarrhea 3y ago
  I don't think I'd be comfortable with it having elaborate editing functionality. PDF editing in a browser is finicky, and an enormous bug fest. I do PDF editing offline, on the desktop, then re-upload to paperless. Not the most integrated flow, but much more bulletproof. I want the PDFs themselves to be immutable once on paperless. Only metadata should be editable.
  • ttyprintk 3y ago
    It keeps an “original” PDF and presents a working copy for modifications like OCR and metadata. Rotation is important for OCR, so rotate-and-redo is a worthwhile feature.
• ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
  It does have rotate clockwise/anticlockwise
  • maweki 3y ago
    Where? I'm pretty sure my instance doesn't.
    • panzerboy 3y ago
      In Settings I have "Use PDF viewer provided by the browser" checked and then see the screenshot: https://imgur.com/TIOv1kK https://imgur.com/TIOv1kK
      • maweki 3y ago
        The renderer does maybe. But it isn't saved and not used for OCR. So paperless doesn't have rotating functionality.
• el_sinchi 3y ago
  you can use an opensource tool for scanning, like NAPS2, which will let you rotate before you mail it to paperless-ngx
• prometheanfire 3y ago
  There is an issue about this, basically it's not going to happen because it is editing functionality. They suggest using another solution before import (build a pipeline).