Purpose of the script

It automatically scans A4 papers, and enables you to keep track of when a page is flipped. When the scanning is finished, it optimizes the images and then converts them into a pdf file.

Requirements

You need the imagemagick and jpegoptim packages installed, as well as the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) library suit.

Use

Firstly find your scanner by issuing scanimage -L and then copy the endpoint and assign it to the device_string variable inside the autoscan.py file.

Then simply run the autoscan.py script using a python interpreter:

python autoscan.py