I want to be able to scan from the terminal and then send the scanned output to a specific directory. Can this be done from the terminal.
scanimage is installed by default.
And here's me using it:
$ scanimage -L
device `epson2:libusb:002:003' is a Epson PID 084F flatbed scanner
$ scanimage -d "epson2:libusb:002:003" --format tiff > rawr.tiff
Obviously that generates a tiff-formatted file. Lossless but usually quite vast. You can convert this down withou an intermediary file by installing imagemagick and then piping the scan output into the convert command:
$ scanimage -d "epson2:libusb:002:003" --format=tiff | convert tiff:- scan.jpg
