I’ve been following Tropy’s development for a while, and have dabbled with it here and there over the years. I’m using it again and am very impressed.
My usual archival-scan method is this: I create one PDF per archival folder, so I can scroll through the PDF like I’d flip through the folder. I’m wondering if there’s a way to do that with Tropy’s list feature instead of having to page through each image individually. (It would also be great to have this on the item level—scrolling through pages of a letter instead of flipping through.) Maybe this feature already exists, but it doesn’t seem like it does.
Even better would be to have a two-page view, like Acrobat’s, that you can scroll through. Lots of letters are double-sided and it would be nice to see both pages at once.
If notes could be displayed in the current manner as you scroll through, that would be another bonus!
We’ve had in mind to add a platform-independent quick look component: this would open the photo in a separate window (and probably display the metadata in an overlay optionally) with keyboard bindings to go to the next photo or item. Is that what you had in mind?
It’s not as optimized but you can do something similar already. If you have list, for example, you can open the first item in Tropy and then use the global keyboard shortcuts to select the next photo in the item or the first photo in the following item. This way you can walk through each photo in the list. To select the next/prev photo in an item use Alt+Left/Right and for the first photo in the next/prev item use Alt+Up/Down. Using Escape you can go back to the project view to see the full list.
Thanks for letting me know about those shortcuts—that is very helpful, and pretty close to what I’m looking for.
But what I’d ideally like to see is a scrolling view, like one has when scrolling through a multi-page document in Word or Acrobat—where instead of flipping through page by page, you can choose to see the bottom half of one page and the top half of the next page at the same time.
Do you get what I’m saying? Not flipping through images, but scrolling through them.