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authorJohannes Ranke <jranke@uni-bremen.de>2016-10-26 12:58:45 +0200
committerJohannes Ranke <jranke@uni-bremen.de>2016-10-26 15:05:52 +0200
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+usage()
+{
+echo "Usage: pdfscan [Lineart|Gray|Color] [resolution] <nameofimage>"
+}
+
+#test to see if the mode and a filename have been entered
+if [ $# -lt 3 ] ; then usage ; exit 1 ; fi
+mode=$1
+resolution=$2
+name=$3
+
+#read output of help command to get scanner device name
+#scanner=`scanimage --help | tail --lines=1 `
+
+echo Now scanning your A4 document to pdf
+#echo Now scanning your A4 document on $scanner
+
+#scan the A4 binary(b&w) file uncompressed at 300dpi to temporary file
+#scanimage -d $scanner \
+scanimage \
+ --mode $mode \
+ -x 210 -y 296 \
+ --resolution $resolution \
+ --format=tiff > temp-$name.tif
+
+#convert to pdf with G4 compression
+tiff2pdf temp-$name.tif -p A4 -q G4 -o $name.pdf
+rm temp-$name.tif
+
+#display pdf
+okular $name.pdf

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