:date: 2015-05-05 20:51

.. index:: tech, sane, thor, ruby, pdf

.. _`2015-scanning`:

Scanning
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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.

.. code::

   $ scan bw output.pdf

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