Re: using scanbd

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2021-07-27 17:11, mick crane wrote:
> The scanner works with XSane and Gimp without any configuration on my 
> part.
> I'd like to scan a load using the scanner's scan button.
> Can somebody give me a quick instruction how that works ?
>
> Installed scanbd which seems to be working in that it stopped XSane
> finding the scanner until I killed scanbd.
> I see that I can comment out the other scanners except the
> manufacturer in /etc/scanbd/scanbd.conf and that I can maybe comment
> out all the other models in /etc/scanbd/fujitsu.conf.
> The example script in /usr/share/doc/scanbd/examples indicates that it
> might save the scanned file to /tmp/scanner.test which I could change.
> Question is if on the right track if I scan many documents how to make
> the files sequentially numbered if the "example.script" is opened new
> each scan ?

Ok, I see from archlinux scanbd wiki that there are some things I need 
to do.
I think then that when scanbd gets a word "scan" from the scanner that 
it calls a script which can just contain "scanimage >image.pgm"
Suppose I could have in there get a number "i" from a file and add one 
to it and save that back to the file and have scanimage >$i.pgm
in order to get sequential numbering unless there is some already 
configured way to do that?

mick
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