Scan Documents with Epson XP-241 and Archlinux

23 Feb 2019 in Snippets on Linux

Dealing with Epson printer and arch.

• Scan Documents with Epson XP-241 and Archlinux
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Scan Documents with Epson XP-241 and Archlinux

The following shell script was applied to scan documents using Epson XP-241 multifunctional in Arch Linux operational system.

If no param is informed, the usage screen appears. The user must inform the name of output file without extension (mandatory) and the path to save the output file (optional).

The DEVICE variable was set based on the result of scanimage -L command, and varies for each environment. More information about scanimage and SANE can be found at Arch Linux Wiki about SANE.

The script requires scanimage (to convert the digital document to image) and convert (to convert the output image to a PDF file).

Snippet

if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
	echo
	echo 'Usage: scan-to-pdf <file name (omit extension)> <path (optional)>'
	echo ' file name: the PDF file name to be generated.'
	echo ' path: the path to save pdf. If not informed, it is set to current directory.'
	echo
	exit 0
fi

A4_X=210
A4_Y=297
#DEVICE="utsushi:esci:usb:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3.1/1-3.1:1.0"
DEVICE=$(scanimage -L | grep -i 'xp-240_series' | cut -d"'" -f1 | cut -d'`' -f2)
USER_PATH="$2"
DEFAULT_PATH='.'
PDF_PATH="${USER_PATH:-$DEFAULT_PATH}"/$1.pdf

scanimage -x $A4_X -y $A4_Y --device $DEVICE --format=png | convert png:- $PDF_PATH