Scanning

I scan documents. A lot. Basically all documents I get. Then I throw most of them away and only store the PDF documents. I have started this a couple of years ago and I keep onto it, since it keeps my paper-mess to an absolute minimum.

After moving the PDF metadata management into a separate tool the scanning process was the last thing left on my list. Using gscan2pdf has brought me quite far, but the repetitive process of scanning, settings and saving the file has taking too much time now. Especially after the metadata-management has take off quite well for me.

So the little script scan now takes the minimum of necessary arguments and stores the file.

$ scan bw output.pdf

The script is written in Ruby and as usual in the git repository.