Idea

Scanner

Use case

To go with the printer, a block where you can put in a printed page/bundle of pages/book, and it would give the computer a file containing the text of the printer. Or, integrate this into the printer.
I saw the idea for a block scanner/camera, but not like this.

I like the sound of this!

I think this is probably better/easier to expose via getItemDetails rather than a new block. Lemmmy did put together an implementation in #1101, which things could probably be based on.

I've kinda mixed feelings about this - I definitely understand why it's useful - just also have a gut reaction of "oooh, not sure about that".

Well, maybe integrate into the printer as said in the original post? Perhaps printer.scan() in the printer API? Which would allow you to put a page into the printer using hoppers, etc, and then fire a pageScanned when a page was read?