iscanimage is an user-friendly command line program for operating scanner devices in Linux. It uses scanimage to do the actual scanning, as the name implies, but it adds many quality-of-life improvements for interactive use.
- Select a scanner device interactively
- Scan multiple files in one session
- Save all scanned files to a specified directory
- Name each file as you go (defaults to the current date and time)
- Evaluate custom commands before and after scanning each file
- Bash
scanimage
Download the iscanimage script, make it executable, and drop it somewhere on your $PATH. If you are using Arch Linux, you can also install iscanimage from the AUR.
Here's an example user session. I scanned two images in JPEG format to my Downloads folder, opening each image in Firefox after it was scanned:
See iscanimage --help for more details on command-line usage.
- Create a proper manpage
iscanimage is licensed under the MIT License.