scanning

sane docs

usb scanner on arch linux

pacman -S sane ipp-usb
systemctl enable ipp-usb
systemctl start ipp-usb
scanimage -L # check scanner is available
scanimage --format=(pnm|png|tiff|jpeg) --output-file <filename> --progress
scanimage --resolution 1200 >output.pnm

• if no format provided defaults to pnm
• man scanimage for more options

convert to pdf

• requires imagemagick

  convert <filename> <new_filename>.pdf