CLI-Scanner

Small helper tool to scan documents via the CLI. It wraps several CLI-based tools which should be available in the Linux distribution.

Supports:

• Manual multi-page documents
• ADF multi-page documents
• Single-Page documents

Requirements

• Python 3
• scanimage
• Ghostscript (for the gs command)
• imagemagick

Installation

For easy acces, simply drop cliscan somewhere in your path, for example:

${HOME}/.local/bin

You can also simply run it as-is. There are no third-party Python packages needed. As long as the requirements above are met you are good to go.

Synopsis

See:

cliscan --help

Details

The format is currently hard-coded as DIN-A4, 150dpi grayscale but can easily be modified in the code.