diff --git a/sources/tech/20200711 scanimage- scan from the command line.md b/sources/tech/20200711 scanimage- scan from the command line.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..91cda0b4ae --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/tech/20200711 scanimage- scan from the command line.md @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +[#]: collector: (lujun9972) +[#]: translator: ( ) +[#]: reviewer: ( ) +[#]: publisher: ( ) +[#]: url: ( ) +[#]: subject: (scanimage: scan from the command line!) +[#]: via: (https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/11/scanimage--scan-from-the-command-line/) +[#]: author: (Julia Evans https://jvns.ca/) + +scanimage: scan from the command line! +====== + +Here’s another quick post about a command line tool I was delighted by. + +Last night, I needed to scan some documents for some bureaucratic reasons. I’d never used a scanner on Linux before and I was worried it would take hours to figure out. I started by using `gscan2pdf` and had trouble figuring out the user interface – I wanted to scan both sides of the page at the same time (which I knew our scanner supported) but couldn’t get it to work. + +### enter scanimage! + +`scanimage` is a command line tool, in the `sane-utils` Debian package. I think all Linux scanning tools use the `sane` libraries (“scanner access now easy”) so my guess is that it has similar abilities to any other scanning software. I didn’t need OCR in this case so we’re not going to talk about OCR. + +### get your scanner’s name with `scanimage -L` + +`scanimage -L` lists all scanning devices you have. + +At first I couldn’t get this to work and I was a bit frustrated but it turned out that I’d connected the scanner to my computer, but not plugged it into the wall. Oops. + +Once everything was plugged in it worked right away. Apparently our scanner is called `fujitsu:ScanSnap S1500:2314`. Hooray! + +### list options for your scanner with `--help` + +Apparently each scanner has different options (makes sense!) so I ran this command to get the options for my scanner: + +``` +scanimage --help -d 'fujitsu:ScanSnap S1500:2314' +``` + +I found out that my scanner supported a `--source` option (which I could use to enable duplex scanning) and a `--resolution` option (which I changed to 150 to decrease the file sizes and make scanning faster). + +### scanimage doesn’t output PDFs (but you can write a tiny script) + +The only downside was – I wanted a PDF of my scanned document, and scanimage doesn’t seem to support PDF output. + +So I wrote this 5-line shell script to scan a bunch of PNGs into a temp directory and convert the resulting PNGs to a PDF. + +``` +#!/bin/bash +set -e + +DIR=`mktemp -d` +CUR=$PWD +cd $DIR +scanimage -b --format png -d 'fujitsu:ScanSnap S1500:2314' --source 'ADF Front' --resolution 150 +convert *.png $CUR/$1 +``` + +I ran the script like this. `scan-single-sided output-file-to-save.pdf` + +You’ll probably need a different `-d` and `--source` for your scanner. + +### it was so easy! + +I always expect using printers/scanners on Linux to be a nightmare and I was really surprised how `scanimage` Just Worked – I could just run my script with `scan-single-sided receipts.pdf` and it would scan a document and save it to `receipts.pdf`!. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +via: https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/11/scanimage--scan-from-the-command-line/ + +作者:[Julia Evans][a] +选题:[lujun9972][b] +译者:[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID) +校对:[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) + +本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译,[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 + +[a]: https://jvns.ca/ +[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972