PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)

📦 version 0.0.4, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for pct-scanner-script, from the General Commands Manual section, and it's literally your new favorite thing for scanning stuff. no cap. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

pct-scanner-script — the easy way to scan things and make merged DjVu and PDF documents for archiving. yes, archiving. we're being organized now, it's giving librarian main character energy 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pct-scanner-script [--help]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So pct-scanner-script is a bash script plus a whole configuration system, and its whole deal is that you can scan documents and create a digital archiving situation without losing your mind. It can make DjVu, PDF and JPEG outputs, and it does them in merged and individual files. Obsessed.

It also has a configuration system where you can define different configurations, so switching between them is easy peasy. The way that configuration cascading works? iconic. ✨

Please use pct-scanner-script --help to find all program options, the complete help, and all examples. fr fr, go look, it's all in there.

Features (aka the vibe check, all passed 😌):

  • auto archiving in merged and individual DjVu, PDF, and JPEG files 🔥
  • auto and manual resume when scanning somehow fails (because sometimes it do be like that 😭)
  • cascading configuration system, for easy customizing
  • easy command-line-style bash program, with useful options
  • archiving made possible with both adf and flatbed scanners
  • built for productivity and daily use
  • uses bash, scanadf and other mainstream processing tools
  • multilanguage commandline output 🌈

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h, --help, -? — Show summary of options, help, and examples. that's it, that's the whole option list, and honestly? she's enough. 🫶

🧚 DEBUGGING 🧚

This program is a helper script to easy scan and automated digital document archiving for normal and adf scanners. So if something's acting up, you can debug this script by running it as:

bash -x pct-scanner-script [options]

The script is just a nice wrapper for the scanadf, DjVu and PDF tools. cute little middleman. no drama, just vibes 🌸

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

(yes there's a trailing comma in the source, we love her for that 💀)

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

pct-scanner-script and this manual page are written by:

  • Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@powercraft.nl>

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1) manpage is dated March 31, 2009, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section, which is where all the good stuff hangs out. go scan something. slay. 💖✨🦋

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