[sane-devel] scanimage: where's the _image_?

[m. allan noah]

uhm, this is unix.

scanimage --options > file.pnm

allan

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, David Morse wrote:

> I'm trying to write a script to scan from the scanner and print the
> result to the printer.
>
> "scanimage" looks like the command line way to scan an image.
> Invoking it causes the scanner to scan, and it looks like this:
>
>  % scanimage -d epson:/dev/usbscanner0
>  P4
>  # SANE data follows
>  632 879
>
> I can't see any file produced by this.  I've futzed around with the
> manpage, and found reference to a '--filename' argument, but its not
> supported in the device-specific options of my scanner.
>
> So how do I get my hands on the image created by the scanning????!
>
> (xsane works fine, btw)
>
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