pi-scanography

Simple script(s) for using USB-powered scanners with the Raspberry Pi. This was created after reading this cool article about someone using a pocketCHIP with scanimage. The article has a broken-link to the GitHub repo, but you can find their code/tutorial here.

More In-Depth Tutorial for This Project

A more in-depth tutorial of what I did to go mobile with a Raspberry Pi 3, for scanography, can be found here.

Basic Directions

Want to just get up and running? Here we go!

Install SANE

When using Raspbian Stretch as an OS, scanimage is not included by default. Let's get it.

# Update and Install SANE
# SANE: Scanner Access Now Easy
sudo apt install sane

Basic Scanography Run

Clone the repo and make the script executable:

git clone https://github.com/ScriptAutomate/pi-scanography.git
chmod +x pi-scanography/scanography.sh

Execute the script:

~/pi-scanography/scanography.sh

This will do the following:

• Create a scans directory in the pi-scanography directory, if there isn't one already. This is where scans are output.
• Create a configuration file in the scans directory for a connected scanner, if there isn't already a configuration file present. This will be named after the type of scanner, as the device name (ex. genesys:libusb:001:005) can change each time it is connected to the Pi, but the device type does not (ex. Canon LiDE 110 flatbed scanner). An example configuration file in this case would be ~/pi-scanography/scans/.Canon-LiDE-110-flatbed-scanner
• Run a scan with the output file placed in the scans directory, with a naming convention of scan$NUMBER.jpeg -- ex. scan4.jpeg

From the terminal, one can view a generated image with gpicview scans/scan4.jpeg