[Gnumed-devel] Image file splitting and parts renaming

[Jim Busser]

On the wiki I created a topic

        FaxIntegration

to help work through that clinical work flow. On that page I list the  
challenge presented in determining how each fax file is to be split,  
merged, renamed, and otherwise processed, given the following  
variations on content:
- multi-page fax = cover page + additional pages on a single-patient
- multi-page fax = cover page + additional pages on multiple patients
- single patient information is split across two fax transmissions  
(files)
- patient information is partly-duplicated across two fax  
transmissions (files)

The challenge of the incoming fax is different than the challenge of  
scanning paper, because with paper it is possible to identify and  
bring focus to a patient even before you would insert the paper into  
the the scanner.

With an incoming fax, the same is not possible. Unless you had spoken  
to the sender immediately before the transmission (and even if you  
did) you could not know with certainly before opening the file which  
patient(s) were being referenced.

It would be tremendous if one could, from inside a file viewer /  
splitter utility:

- display a listing of a directory structure, with the file contents  
of the current directory displayed
- ability to set a default for the directory to be examined
- ability to be presented thumbnails of the first page, or image, of  
the current directory's files
- on selecting any one file:
-- the ability to "open" (view the multi-image or multi-page)  
contents of the file
-- the ability to rename the file
-- the ability to move the file (or multiple-selection of files) to a  
subdirectory
-- when a file is viewed as having parts that belong to different  
patients, the ability to designate a split-point that would spawn two  
new component files in place of the original
-- the ability to rename and output the components

thoughts?