Flameeyes's scan2pdf
This is a simple script that works as a frontend to scanimage(1)
from the SANE project, to scan a number of pages from a compatible
device into one or more PDF documents.
Prerequisites
- sane-backends (>= 1.0.22
recommended, for
scanimage -A
) - posix-spawn (tested with 0.3.6)
- libtiff utilities
- netpbm (a note for Gentoo users: you need both
tiff
andjpeg
USE flags enabled for the pnm2tiff utility.) - ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick
- unpaper
- inifile (>= 2, optional, for configuration file support.)
The configuration file
Some device always require the same parameters to be passed, because they are either center-based scanning, or ADF-only. Some other time you might want for them to use a different resolution by default, or not to use unpaper.
In these cases you can configure scan2pdf
to provide those
options. The configuration file is a key-value pair file (.ini
file)
and it resides in ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/eu.flameeyes.scan2pdf
(which by
default on Linux system is ~/.config/eu.flameeyes.scan2pdf
).
The configuration file uses a [defaults]
section, which only has one
key (device
), and then one section for device. Note that device name
is not matched against the names reported by scanimage
, but rather
against the value of the --device
option passed to scan2pdf
. It is
suggested to provide a default device when using the configuration
file.
The key names within the device sections are the same as the
parameters passed to scan2pdf
without the two leading dashes.