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how to scan automatically (no gui)

how to scan automatically (no gui)

I have xsane nistalled for scanning;
I would like to scan my documents quickly just via command line at 300 dpi

Would someone knows the trick

thank you !

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how to scan automatically (no gui)

You might want to make sure the scanner is detected by the command:
sane-find-scanner
Then, you can get a nice list of commands by typing:
scanimage --help
You need to use -d, --device-name=DEVICE in the scanning command.

Quote:

Originally Posted by homey

I made a little script for scanning at 300 DPI:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

cd

[ ! -d "scanned_documents" ] && mkdir "scanned_documents"

## CTRL SHIFT ALT S    to scan your document in grey

## CTRL SHIFT ALT Flag S    to scan your document with colors

cd scanned_documents

echo "--- Scanning ... ---"

filename_default="scanned_$(date)"

filetiff="$(echo $filename_default).tiff"

filejpeg="$(echo $filename_default).jpg"

echo "$filetiff" 

echo "$filejpeg"

## this makes a 300 DPI tiff file

scanimage --mode gray --format tiff  > "$filetiff"

convert "$filetiff"  "$filejpeg"

rm -rf "$filetiff" 

echo "The file: $(echo $filejpeg) has just been scanned."

echo "--- --- "

## need NTP support

Thank you !!