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#!/bin/bash
set -e
DIR=`mktemp -d`
CUR=$PWD
cd $DIR
scanimage -b --format png -d 'fujitsu:ScanSnap S1500:2314' --source 'ADF Duplex' --resolution 300
convert *.png $CUR/$1
rm -r $DIR
evince $CUR/$1
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fcuny commented Mar 9, 2022

You might already know about this, but you can also combine this with https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Home.html to do OCR and get the text in the PDF to make it possible to search for the content.

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