- SANE backend for scanning images
- Tesseract OCR engine for searching scanned documents
- Single & multiple document scan mode
- Search documents with arbitrary meta tags
# set env variable
export SCANNER_DEFAULT_DEVICE='escl:http://localhost:60000'
# add bin to path
export PATH="$PATH:/path/to/scan-cli/bin"
# install OCR engine
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr# scan options
-n --name outfile_name_root # file name root
-l --labels label1 label2 ... # meta data labels for the document(s)
-r --resolution 75|150|300 # DPI value (default = 150)
-o --ocr # process with OCR engine (default = No)
-m --many # scan multiple pages (default = No)
-c --color # color mode
# scan usage
doccli scan
doccli scan --resolution 300
doccli scan -n 'paystub-feb-2023-1' --ocr
doccli scan -n 'paystub-feb-2023-1' -l 2023 paystub 'XYZ Corp'
doccli scan -n 'tax-return-2023' -l 2023 tax --many
# show all tags in use
doccli tags# list files options
-f --fullpaths # show full paths
doccli files
doccli files --fullpaths# show all files in doccli's data directory
doccli ls