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+date: 2012-03-12 23:00
+title: "MetroScan"
+author: "@aeoth, @shiftkey and @tobin"
+comments: true
+---
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+One of the earlier ideas we had on our [Uservoice](https://code52.uservoice.com/) was a scanner utility that had a metro look and feel.  We've put it off a few weeks as we looked at projects that would help us out with administrating Code52 like [MarkPad](http://code52.org/DownmarkerWPF/) and [Pretzel](http://code52.org/pretzel/) whose sites have had a facelift lately, and have had large changes and improvements since being created.
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+But we've always had it in the backs of our minds as a fun project, some of us have gone out and gotten some hardware to participate, and now we're set to go!
+
+## Goals
+
+What we really want, is to start simple - a scanning tool that builds on top of the Windows built in systems, but restyles the dialogs and pages into a metro look and feel, and simplifies the act.
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+Then we want to look at extending it - offering some basic image processing functions like straightening the image, or basic color correction.
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+And finally we want to extend it further with parts to handle some document management/OCR (to index what you've scanned for future reference), and so you can do things like upload what you've scanned to dropbox/rackspace/skydrive and similar.
+
+
+## How can I get involved?
+
+As usual the project is going up on [GitHub](https://github.com/Code52/metroscan) tomorrow. [The Trello Board](https://trello.com/board/metro-scanner-app/4f24963edbbed1ab5a11c5ad) has some thoughts outlined on where we think we'll be headed with it, but as usual we're always open to other ideas being added.  You can ping one of us on [JabbR](http://jabbr.net/#/rooms/code52) to be added to the board to volunteer to do one of the features, or come in just to discuss the project, or chat in general.
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+We're looking forward to seeing what we can come up with, and hope that lives up to the great WPF apps we've managed to put out over the past couple of months :)
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+If you want to check some of those out you can do so on this blog, or the code is up on [GitHub](https://github.com/Code52/)!
