Books Scan Script

This script was used to scan old magezines, the scrip save each page to a new image file, auto increments page numbers. Command are also given for image correction and pdf generation.

#!/bin/bash

i=$1

while true

do

    printf -v name "s%03d.png" "$i"

    echo "Scanning $name..."

     #hp-scan -d hpaio:/usb/DeskJet_2130_series?serial=CN58J373M6067S --mode=color --res=200 --output="$name" -i

     #scanimage -d "hpaio:/usb/DeskJet_2130_series?serial=CN58J373M6067S" --mode Color  --format=png --resolution 100 > "$name"

     scanimage -d "hpaio:/usb/DeskJet_2130_series?serial=CN58J373M6067S" --mode Gray  --format=png --resolution 200 > "$name"

     #mogrify -rotate 180 "$name"

    echo "Saved scans/$name"

    read -p "Next page? (Enter=yes, q=quit): " ans

    [[ "$ans" == "q" ]] && break

    ((i=i+2))

done

# To Scan

# scanimage -d "hpaio:/usb/DeskJet_2130_series?serial=CN58J373M6067S" --mode Gray  --format=png --resolution 200 > "scan1.png"

# To rotate by 180

# mogrify -rotate 180 *.png

# To make pdf for mixed gray and color images from scanimage use:

# img2pdf -s 10cmx15cm *.png -o file.pdf

# To upload

# ia upload ElectronicsDigest17jan1991 file.pdf -m 'mediatype:texts' -m 'title:Electronics Digest No 17' --retries 20 --sleep 60

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