[sane-devel] Scan from command-line

stef stef.dev at free.fr
Sun Jan 10 12:28:58 UTC 2010


Le dimanche 10 janvier 2010 12:07:30 Josu Lazkano, vous avez écrit :
> Hello, I solve it. I use those two command and it works:
> 
> scanimage --mode Color > Desktop/document.pnm
> scanimage --mode Color --format=tiff > Desktop/document.tiff
> 
> The problem is that both images are huge, 11.4MB. Is possible to convert to
> JPEG this the scanner utility?
> 
> Thanks for all.
> 
	Hello,

	there is no need for support in 'scanimage'. You can use other command line 
tools like 'pnmtojpeg' (which part of the netpbm suite) to convert the 
scanimage's output to jpeg:

scanimage --mode Color |  pnmtojpeg >Desktop/document.jpg

Regards,
	Stef



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