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scanimage — Scan images with the Scanner Access Now Easy API. More information: <http://sane-project.org/man/sca

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Problem

How to use the scanimage command: Scan images with the Scanner Access Now Easy API. More information: <http://sane-project.org/man/scanimage.1.html>.

Solution

scanimage — Scan images with the Scanner Access Now Easy API. More information: <http://sane-project.org/man/scanimage.1.html>.

List available scanners to ensure the target device is connected and recognized:

scanimage {{[-L|--list-devices]}}

Scan an image and save it to a file:

scanimage --format {{pnm|tiff|png|jpeg|pdf|...}} > {{path/to/new_image}}

Specify the device to scan from:

scanimage {{[-d|--device]}} {{device_name}} > {{path/to/new_image}}

Specify resolution for the scanned image (default resolution is 75dpi):

scanimage --resolution {{300}} > {{path/to/new_image}}

Code Snippets

List available scanners to ensure the target device is connected and recognized

scanimage {{[-L|--list-devices]}}

Scan an image and save it to a file

scanimage --format {{pnm|tiff|png|jpeg|pdf|...}} > {{path/to/new_image}}

Specify the device to scan from

scanimage {{[-d|--device]}} {{device_name}} > {{path/to/new_image}}

Specify resolution for the scanned image (default resolution is 75dpi)

scanimage --resolution {{300}} > {{path/to/new_image}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/scanimage

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