Why not just use scanimage -b ? allan
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Carl Karsten <c...@nextdayvideo.com> wrote: > About 6 times a year I need to scan a stack of papers, between 10 and 50 > pages. > > I have a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 > http://scanners.fcpa.fujitsu.com/scansnap11/features_s1100i.html > > I put a page in place, run: > > juser@cnt3:~/temp$ scanimage -v >image.pnm > scanimage: scanning image of size 2592x3450 pixels at 1 bits/pixel > scanimage: acquiring gray frame > scanimage: read 1117800 bytes in total > > When I run that, nothing happens for a few seconds, then it spins the feed > rollers, paper goes though, good. > > I could put that in a bash loop with a read, scan, hit enter, scan, hit > enter... ^C > > I am hoping there is support for the button. > > Or something a little more elegant than ^c. > > Not sure if I care about creating a multipage file, it would be handy for > keeping track of the batches of scans, but I need to split it into separate > files to process, so that doesn't help. > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org -- "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand" -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
