This repo has instructions on how to install the required packages/plugins on Ubuntu to be able to scan from Ubuntu command line.
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/iloveyii/install_hp_scanner. - Find the URI to the network printer:
scanimage -Land adjust this in the script. Try to print a document and the result may change but actually works!!! - Make the script executable
sudo chmod 777 scan_image_to_png. - Move it to bin
sudo mv scan_image_to_png /usr/local/bin/.
- To scan the document in color mode use :
scan_image_to_png fileName.png color - To scan the document in black and white mode use :
scan_image_to_png fileName.png - You may want to convert all images to pdf :
convert *.png all.pdf - If trouble of permissions in the above command use:
sudo mv /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xmlout
It will save the scanned image in the current directory.
- You many need to install the following.
sudo apt-get install hplip
sudo apt install snmp
sudo apt-get install hplip-gui
sudo chmod 777 hplip-3.18.12-plugin.run
./hplip-3.18.12-plugin.run
sudo hp-setup
hp-plugin