sane-scanimage-wrapper

simple wrapper around sane scanimage to scan images from node

Requirements

This module is a wrapper around sane's scanimage utility, you need to have sane installed.

sudo apt-get install sane

Install

npm install --save sane-scanimage-wrapper

API

listDevices

Returns a promise that is resolved to an Array of available devices.

Example:

 
var sane = require('sane-scanimage-wrapper');
 
sane.listDevices().then(console.log);
 
/* output :
[ { name: 'epson2:net:192.168.0.38',
    vendor: 'Epson',
    model: 'PID 0891',
    type: 'flatbed scanner',
    index: '0' } ]
*/

Scan

Return a stream of the scaned image.

var sane = require('sane-scanimage-wrapper');
var fs = require('fs');
 
var scanner = new sane.Scanner();
scanner.scan().pipe(fs.createWriteStream('./output.png'));