Scanner - Scan images directly into NextCloud
Scanner is a NextCloud app which adds the ability to scan images from a local or network-available scanner (via the SANE tools) directly into Nextcloud.
Installation
- Place the code in [your nextcloud folder]/apps/scanner
- Make sure you have
scanimageandpnmtojpegbinaries available- On Debian, these are provided by the
sane-utilsandnetpbmpackages
- On Debian, these are provided by the
- Ensure executing
scanimage -Lon your NextCloud server returns the correct scanner- Configuring SANE is beyond this README, but:
- For scanners shared by another host, add the hostname to /etc/sane.d/net.conf
- Make sure scanimage can be executed by the user that runs your webserver (for example www-data or apache)
- You can add this line to your /etc/sudoers file (change the user to the corresponding one running the webserver):
www-data ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/scanimage
- You can add this line to your /etc/sudoers file (change the user to the corresponding one running the webserver):
Configuration
Currently Scanner has no settings, so there is no in-app configuration.
Usage
Scanner adds a new menu entry to the Files menu:
Selecting this will allow you to specify a filename as usual (default scan.jpg):
The app will then call scanimage to get a scan, and save the resulting image with the specified filename:
Known Issues
- Only the default scanner is used for
scanimage- If you have more than one scanner, scanimage will only use the first
More issues / roadmap details can be found in the TODO file
License / Copyright
Copyright (c) 2016 Greg Sutcliffe (Original author) Copyright (c) 2016 e-alfred
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
Extra files
Scanner logo obtained from Wikimedia Commons (LGPL)