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exhuma/cliscan

CLI helper for scanning documents on linux

CLI-Scanner

Small helper tool to scan documents via the CLI. It wraps several CLI-based
tools which should be available in the Linux distribution.

Supports:

  • Manual multi-page documents
  • ADF multi-page documents
  • Single-Page documents

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • scanimage
  • Ghostscript (for the gs command)
  • imagemagick

Installation

For easy acces, simply drop cliscan somewhere in your path, for example::

${HOME}/.local/bin

You can also simply run it as-is. There are no third-party Python packages
needed. As long as the requirements above are met you are good to go.

Synopsis

See::

cliscan --help

Details

The format is currently hard-coded as DIN-A4, 150dpi grayscale but can easily
be modified in the code.

Languages

Python100.0%

Contributors

Created February 3, 2019
Updated March 14, 2026
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