Helper script to scan straight to PDF with network scanner on the LAN using scanimage and unoconv

scan2pdf

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# usage: scan2pdf output
# results in: output.pdf
# possible improvements:
#   - config file for IP, default resolution, sleep time
#   - device discovery
#   - platform-agnostic temp file usage
#   - investigate parsing errors of otherwise successful conversions

tmpfile=$(mktemp /tmp/scan.XXXX);
scanimage -d 'smfp:net;<ip_of_scanner>' --resolution 150  > "$tmpfile"
sleep 6
unoconv -o $1.pdf "$tmpfile"
rm "$tmpfile"