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author: einar
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date: 2007-07-04 21:26:31+00:00
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slug: command-line-scanning
title: Command line scanning
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- Linux
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Recently, I had to do a few scans with my old but trusty BenQ 640BU. Given that I could not use any GUI due to a [long-standing Feisty bug](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85488), I tried to settle for command line scanning with the scanimage command from [SANE](http://www.sane-project.org). The main problem is that scanimage only saves images in PNM or TIFF formats. I wanted to use JPEG or PNG, but apparently that looked impossible to do.
Instead, I found that scanimage sends its results to standard output, and also that ImageMagick can accept standard input as source file, it was easy to convert on the fly:
[code lang='c']
scanimage --format pnm | convert -format png - test.png
[/code]
"-" tells convert to use the standard input. Another great example of the power of the command line.