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.

Note: I've modified the Parameters so that I am able to scan with my Brother NetworkScanner MFC9142cdn using the original Brother print- and scandrivers from the support website.

https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=de&lang=de&prod=mfc9142cdn_eu

I've also changed the call of scanimage - no sudo needed if the user (f.e. www-data) is in the group of the sane-backend. So it should be enough to add www-data to the sane group:

# usermod -aG sane www-data

• Place the code in [your nextcloud folder]/apps/scanner
• Make sure you have scanimage and pnmtojpeg binaries available
  • On Debian, these are provided by the sane-utils and netpbm packages
• Ensure executing scanimage -L on 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

Currently Scanner has no settings, so there is no in-app configuration.

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:

• 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

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.

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