Comment 14 for bug 494759

Why do you not add a very simple low-resolution-preview mode like the one in the simple scanning tool integrated in Windows XP. It is as simple to use as Simple-Scan except it has the preview mode many people would like to have.( the mode described by Schaze from the beginning). Anyway I would be very interrested to have this preview mode in Simple Scan and therefore in Ubuntu in order to select the area I want to scan more quickly. You should think to all people still owning an old scanner (Epson perfection 1250 for me, not so old though !). Reasonably speaking, most people are not ready to buy a more recent scanner just because a software appears. I said reasonably because of course I do not expect Simple scan to work with a very very old scanner, but maybe . . .

So it would be well if Simple-Scan had more than the only following option : to scan the whole page not in a low-resolution-preview mode. You might add an advanced profile, an option you have to choose in the preference menu for example, to allow advanced users to do a preview in a low resolution mode, crop an area, and then with the start of the scan, the scanner would go quickly to the beginning of the selected area without scanning and then only, would begin to scan up to the end of this area. It would be a quicker and more accurate tool in addition to the current functionalities. I do not think it would be any more complicated since it would be an advanced profile you do not have to switch to if you do not want. Take a look at the simple scanning tool embedded in Windows XP for the preview mode.