📋 Functionality Description:

a) Description:

🛠️ Develop a comprehensive guide and set of tools to help both lending and borrowing libraries edit and improve scans produced for RapidILL.

b) Business Reason:

This enhancement would benefit the RapidILL community by:

🎯 Improving overall scan quality and accessibility

🤝 Enhancing customer care for end-users

⚖️ Balancing speed with quality in document delivery

🔧 Providing resources for libraries with varying equipment capabilities

c) User Story:

👩‍💼 As a library worker using RapidILL, I want access to best practices, tools, and guidelines for producing and editing high-quality scans, so that I can provide better service to end-users while maintaining efficiency.

d) Technical Requirements:

📚 Creation of a "Scan Quality Toolkit" hosted on RapidILL webpages

🖥️ Development or curation of online editing tools

📝 Integration of quality feedback option in cover sheets

🛠️ Detailed Functionality:

a) Best Practice Guidelines:

📋 Develop comprehensive scanning best practices

🖨️ Provide recommendations for hardware and software

📊 Include guidelines for optimal scanner settings (DPI, color vs. B&W)

b) Toolkit Components:

📖 Scanning Guidelines:

📄 Single page vs. double spread recommendations

🔄 Page orientation guidance

✂️ Tips for removing white/blank space

🔍 Ensuring readability for accessibility

📑 Including necessary bibliographic information

🖱️ Online Editing Tools:

🔀 Page reordering

➕ Page addition

🔄 Page rotation

✂️ Page cropping

📐 Page deskewing

✂️ Page splitting

🔤 Text recognition

📉 File size reduction

c) Cover Sheet Enhancement:

💬 Add optional note for unmediated workflows to gather feedback on scan quality

📝 Implementation Steps:

🏗️ Create the Scan Quality Toolkit web pages

📝 Develop best practice guidelines and recommendations

🔍 Research and curate or develop online editing tools

🔗 Integrate toolkit access into RapidILL interface

📃 Update cover sheet templates to include quality feedback option

🏫 Provide training and documentation for libraries on using the new toolkit

🌟 Benefits:

📈 Improved overall scan quality across the RapidILL network

♿ Enhanced accessibility for end-users

🎓 Education and resources for libraries to improve their scanning processes

🔧 Tools to address common scan quality issues

📊 Potential for gathering user feedback on scan quality

🔀 Flexibility for both lending and borrowing libraries to improve scans