scannertools

bash scripts to control a scanner device using the sane and imagemagick tools

concept

documentation

There are a lot of proprietary solutions for scanning media, out there. In general, these media will be converted and saved e.g. in PDF format. Open source and free CLI-based tools could be used as well. Unfortunately, the latter ones often need to be installed and configured in order to be usable. Those open source tools provide a much more individual and flexible way of telling the scanner what to do. The static scripts presented here, are "prototypes" of how to use those open source solutions:

• sane for scanning purposes and
• imagemagick for file format conversions (and more)

The scripts provide fix configurations for the scan process:

• resolution
• page size
• page orientation
• color settings
• dithering settings
• single or double-sided
• ...

The implemented scan configuration is represented within the scan script name: e.g. scan_feed_A4_200dpi_bw_ss_dark.sh