scan2pdf-v2.6

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Changes:

• Added option -t/--prompt-timeout VALUE (with VALUE in seconds); when
  specified, user prompts time out after the specified duration, allowing
  for automatic, time-based continuous scanning (useful for manual duplex
  and/or batch mode)
• Added option -i/--initial-prompt which issues a user prompt before the
  first scan operation (e.g. before odd pages for manual duplex, before first
  document in batch mode)
• Redistributed short options to free up letters for added features (mainly
  -t for --prompt-TIMEOUT; additionally, -p seemed more fitting for
  --outfile-PATTERN)
• Renamed option -a/--batch-scan to -a/--batch-mode (seemed more fitting)
• Added defaults for all command line options to usage information (before,
  defaults for flags like manual duplex, batch mode, etc. were missing)
• Added all possible configuration items to configuration file (before,
  flags like manual duplex, batch mode, etc. were omitted)
• Applied several minor fixes (prints, comments, error messages)

scan2pdf-v2.5

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Changes:

• Added option -u/--manual-duplex to facilitate scanning double-sided
  documents with devices that lack hardware support for duplex scanning
• Added Service Menu for KDE file managers Konqueror and Dolphin
  for convenient one-click scanning to PDF file via context menu entries

scan2pdf-v2.4

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Changes:

• Changed workflow to either use scanimage+convert (preferred) -or-
  scanimage+tiffcp+tiff2pdf (fallback); convert is preferred as
  tiff2pdf might get removed from LibTIFF in the future (see https://
  bugs.gentoo.org/914232)
• Updated dependency requirements in README.md to reflect new workflow
  (now, either ImageMagick -or- LibTIFF is required)
• Added output options for convert equivalent to those currently used for
  tiff2pdf (i.e. ZIP compression -or- JPEG compression, quality 95)
• Added command options to Scan settings/parameters listing printed to
  console

scan2pdf-v2.3

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Changes:

• Added option -a/--batch-scan to allow scanning multiple documents in one
  go, prompting user in between documents (depends on option
  -o/--outfile-pattern for output file naming)
• Added option -o/--outfile-pattern that allows specifying OUTFILE command
  line argument as printf-style pattern (e.g. ~/Documents/Scan_%05d.pdf)
  that is used to automatically determine the next available output file name
  by incrementing the integer part of the pattern
• Reordered configuration items to better highlight which settings to use for
  which paper size
• Removed configuration items that only make sense to be modified via command
  line options from configuration file (BATCH_SCAN_DEFAULT,
  OUTFILE_PATTERN_DEFAULT, KEEP_TEMP_DEFAULT)
• Eliminated need to cd to temporary directory by adding path to temporary
  directory to --batch= template of call to scanimage
• Added '--' to explicitely end option parsing to all external commands that
  support it
• Applied a few minor tweaks to printed output (wording, spacing)
• Extended headers in script and configuration file to 80 characters
• Reformatted README.md and CHANGELOG.md to be more readable when viewed
  in a simple text viewer/editor

scan2pdf-v2.1

Initial release (versions prior to v2.1 have not been published).

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Features:

• Highly configurable (both via configuration file and command line options)
• Allows selecting scan source, scan resolution and color mode
• Allows setting brightness and contrast (for color modes that support this)
• Allows specifying scan geometry (i.e. offset and dimensions of scan area)
• Lightweight with only few dependencies