Drop-Team / InnoPrintBot

Telegram bot for printing and scanning with printer

InnoPrintBot

Bot for printing and scanning on the public printer of Innopolis University on the 5th floor.

Table of Contents

• About
• Used
• Deploy

About

Bot which allows to print and scan with different parameters using the Telegram messenger.

It has ready-to-use components, so it's easy to add functionality.

Used

• AIOGram as framework for Telegram Bot API
• FastAPI as Web framework and uvicorn for running it
• LibreOffice:
  • unoserver for converting documents to PDF using LibreOffice
• PyPDF4 for reading PDF files
• Apple CUPS (for printing):
  • pycups for interaction with CUPS
  • pycups-notify for receiving notifications about the status of a print job
  • Docker image for deployment
• eSCL protocol for scanning

Deploy

Environment

1. Rename .env-example to .env.
2. Edit it

Printer driver

It is used by CUPS

Edit Printer.ppd if necessary
Now it contains drivers for "Kyocera ECOSYS M3645dn"

Docker

To run use Docker:

docker-compose build
docker-compose -d up  # -d to run in background 
docker-compose ps