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Changelog for release v2.6

Changes:

  • Added option -t/--prompt-timeout VALUE (with VALUE in seconds); when specified, user prompts time out after the specified duration, allowing for automatic, time-based continuous scanning (useful for manual duplex and/or batch mode)
  • Added option -i/--initial-prompt which issues a user prompt before the first scan operation (e.g. before odd pages for manual duplex, before first document in batch mode)
  • Redistributed short options to free up letters for added features (mainly -t for --prompt-TIMEOUT; additionally, -p seemed more fitting for --outfile-PATTERN)
  • Renamed option -a/--batch-scan to -a/--batch-mode (seemed more fitting)
  • Added defaults for all command line options to usage information (before, defaults for flags like manual duplex, batch mode, etc. were missing)
  • Added all possible configuration items to configuration file (before, flags like manual duplex, batch mode, etc. were omitted)
  • Applied several minor fixes (prints, comments, error messages)

Changelog for release v2.5

Changes:

  • Added option -u/--manual-duplex to facilitate scanning double-sided documents with devices that lack hardware support for duplex scanning
  • Added Service Menu for KDE file managers Konqueror and Dolphin for convenient one-click scanning to PDF file via context menu entries

Changelog for release v2.4

Changes:

  • Changed workflow to either use scanimage+convert (preferred) -or- scanimage+tiffcp+tiff2pdf (fallback); convert is preferred as tiff2pdf might get removed from LibTIFF in the future (see https:// bugs.gentoo.org/914232)
  • Updated dependency requirements in README.md to reflect new workflow (now, either ImageMagick -or- LibTIFF is required)
  • Added output options for convert equivalent to those currently used for tiff2pdf (i.e. ZIP compression -or- JPEG compression, quality 95)
  • Added command options to Scan settings/parameters listing printed to console

Changelog for release v2.3

Changes:

  • Added option -a/--batch-scan to allow scanning multiple documents in one go, prompting user in between documents (depends on option -o/--outfile-pattern for output file naming)
  • Added option -o/--outfile-pattern that allows specifying OUTFILE command line argument as printf-style pattern (e.g. ~/Documents/Scan_%05d.pdf) that is used to automatically determine the next available output file name by incrementing the integer part of the pattern
  • Reordered configuration items to better highlight which settings to use for which paper size
  • Removed configuration items that only make sense to be modified via command line options from configuration file (BATCH_SCAN_DEFAULT, OUTFILE_PATTERN_DEFAULT, KEEP_TEMP_DEFAULT)
  • Eliminated need to cd to temporary directory by adding path to temporary directory to --batch= template of call to scanimage
  • Added '--' to explicitely end option parsing to all external commands that support it
  • Applied a few minor tweaks to printed output (wording, spacing)
  • Extended headers in script and configuration file to 80 characters
  • Reformatted README.md and CHANGELOG.md to be more readable when viewed in a simple text viewer/editor

Changelog for release v2.2

Release has not been published (skipped ahead to release v2.3).

Changes:

  • Added support for using convert (part of ImageMagick) instead of tiff2pdf (part of LibTIFF) as the latter is no longer being built by default and will probably be removed completely from from LibTIFF in the foreseeable future (see https://bugs.gentoo.org/914232)
  • Added empty lines within usage information group similar items (e.g. brightness + contrast, topleftx + toplefty + width + height, etc.)
  • If an output file is specified, abort if it already exists (instead of overwriting it)
  • If no output file is specified, automatically choose the next available scan_NNNNN.pdf file name (i.e. scan_00001.pdf, scan_00002.pdf, etc.)
  • Use -e for output file checks instead of -f (to catch non-file items like folders, fifos, sockets, etc. as well)

Changelog for release v2.1

Initial release (versions prior to v2.1 have not been published).

Features:

  • Highly configurable (both via configuration file and command line options)
  • Allows selecting scan source, scan resolution and color mode
  • Allows setting brightness and contrast (for color modes that support this)
  • Allows specifying scan geometry (i.e. offset and dimensions of scan area)
  • Lightweight with only few dependencies

Last updated: 02/18/24