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Scanning

Simple-scan

Works !

scanimage

Show scanners detected by saned:

scanimage -L

scanimage by itself can scan to pnm (default), tiff, png or jpg format

scanimage --format=jpg > /tmp/i.jpg
scanimage > /tmp/i.pnm

scan to pdf

scan_pdf /tmp/out.pdf

which is aliased to

scanimage -p --resolution 250 --mode Grayscale | pnmtops -imageheight 11 -imagewidth 8.5 | ps2pdf -

Show all avaiable options, including all device options:

scanimage -h

Web services

  • Look Scanned frontend site that makes your PDFs look scanned! No need for printers and scanners anymore

Troubleshooting

Network scanners

  • Firewalld blocks scanning
systemctl stop firewalld.service