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The purpose of this documentation is to use a scanner without any user interface. A common use is to upload a PDF scanned file directly to Google Drive or Dropbox just by pressing scanner-buttons. scanbd permits to trigger actions from the scanner buttons, it uses sane. What make things a little b...

The local configuration of sane is inside /etc/saned.d /etc/sane.d/dll.conf # /etc/sane.d/dll.conf - Configuration file for the SANE dynamic backend loader # # Backends can also be enabled by configuration snippets under # /etc/sane.d/dll.d directory -- packages providing backends should drop...

Identify the local scanner By using lsusb, identify the productId (1909 here) : pi:# lsusb pi:# Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04a9:1909 Canon, Inc. CanoScan LiDE 110 With that productId, grep the correct configuration file (it depends of your scanner model, for me it is genesys.conf) : pi:# grep 190...

Actions are located in /usr/local/etc/scanbd/scanbd.conf. I have 4 buttons that are scan, copy, email and file. The default config file doesn't include all actions per default, you will probably have to add the block manually. You can have less or more buttons depending of your scanner model. ...