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scanprintsave Contributed by: Cédric Chabanois

Introduction

This script will allow you to scan, print and save the scanned data to a pdf file.

It will ask you the document name and the mode (lineart, color or gray) and then will save the scanned file as a pdf and print the scanned file.

You will need to change PDF_DIR.

Script

#!/bin/bash

declare PDF_DIR="/mnt/ext3-500/documents/Cédric/scans"

declare DOCUMENT_NAME=
declare MODE=
declare TIFF_FILE=
declare PDF_FILE=

getDocumentName() {
  TEMPFILE=`tempfile 2>/dev/null` || TEMPFILE=/tmp/test$$
  trap "rm -f $TEMPFILE" 0 1 2 5 15
  dialog --title "Document title" --clear \
         --inputbox "Enter document name:" 16 51 2> $TEMPFILE

  valret=$?

  case $valret in
    0)
      DOCUMENT_NAME=`cat $TEMPFILE`;;
    1)
      exit 1;;
    255)
      exit 1;;
  esac
}

getMode() {
  TEMPFILE=`tempfile 2>/dev/null` || TEMPFILE=/tmp/test$$
  trap "rm -f $TEMPFILE" 0 1 2 5 15

  dialog --backtitle "Select mode" \
	--title "Select mode" --clear \
        --radiolist "Select the mode :" 20 61 5 \
	"Lineart" "Lineart" ON\
        "Gray" "Gray" off\
        "Color" "Color" off 2> $TEMPFILE
  valret=$?
  case $valret in
    0)
      MODE=`cat $TEMPFILE`;;
    1)
      exit 1;;
    255)
      exit 1;;
  esac
}

scan() {
  echo "Scanning document"
  TEMPFILE=`tempfile 2>/dev/null` || TEMPFILE=/tmp/test$$
  TEMPFILE=${TEMPFILE}.tiff
  trap "rm -f $TEMPFILE" 0 1 2 5 15

  scanimage --progress --format tiff --mode $MODE \
    --resolution 300 \
    -l 0 -t 0 -x 210mm -y 297mm \
     > ${TEMPFILE}
  TIFF_FILE=${TEMPFILE}
}

saveToPdf() {
  PDF_FILE="${PDF_DIR}/${DOCUMENT_NAME} `date +%m-%d-%y`.pdf"
  echo "Saving document to ${PDF_FILE}"
  tiff2pdf -p A4 -o "${PDF_FILE}" "$TIFF_FILE"
}

print() {
  echo "Printing document"
  tiff2ps -z -w 8.27 -h 11.69 "$TIFF_FILE" | lpr
}

getDocumentName
getMode
scan
saveToPdf
print