Scans2pdf

CLI tool to scan multiple pages and combine them into one pdf. Support for OCR

Usage

$ scans2pdf -h
usage: scans2pdf [-h] [-n <filename>] [-c <count>] [--color] [-r] [-f] [-L] [-t] [-l] [-o] [filename] [<count>]

Scan to a pdf document

positional arguments:
  filename
  <count>               number of pages to be scanned

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -n <filename>, --name <filename>
                        an integer for the accumulator
  -c <count>, --count <count>
                        number of pages to be scanned
  --color               color instead of black & white
  -r, --rescan          rescan previous page
  -f, --finish          finish and start merge even if more pages are expected
  -L, --last            merge pages after scan even if more pages were specified
  -t, --append-today    append today's date as suffix in the form -YYYY-MM-DD
  -l, --landscape       rotate this page from portrait to landscape (clockwise)
  -o, --no-ocr          skip tesseract OCR (text recognition)

Installation

Install pipx

git clone https://github.com/githubkusi/scans2pdf.git
pipx install scans2pdf

Dependencies

Install a sane backend containing the command scanimage, eg

zypper install sane-backends

Install tesseract with your preferred language, eg.

zypper install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-traineddata-german