[sane-devel] Can do program to schedule scanners?

EM e.marc at orange.fr
Fri Nov 1 08:40:57 UTC 2013


Hello,

On Linux you may also use watch command to start periodically a command.
If your scanner is upported, I assume you can write a command-line sequence 
(without graphical inteface) that makes the scan in a file.

Regards
Le vendredi 1 novembre 2013 01:24:04, m. allan noah a écrit :
> Sure, cron can be used to schedule any command line job on a Unix
> machine. Combine that with our scanimage program, and you can do this.
> The only questions are, is your scanner supported, and are you on a
> platform where sane runs?
> 
> allan
> 
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Xiao Yi <yixxx076 at umn.edu> wrote:
> > Hi SANE developers,
> > I am a researcher in biology. I want to use my flatbed scanner to do a
> > time lapse with my petri dish where bacteria grow.
> > I wonder if there is any existing frontend of SANE or software that can
> > control my scanner to do it?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Xiao
> > 
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