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I was feeling much better yesterday; I have some energy back, but get fatigued easily. My brain has been restless, however, so while I’ve been vegging on couches, I went ahead and finished setting up automatic document scanning and installed an open source document management system. I had bought a used flatbed scanner on eBay to use with this setup, but it didn’t actually scan. So for now I’m using in old HP MFP; which is nice because it has both a flatbed and a document feeder, but isn’t super great because it doesn’t have a scan button that works with ‘scanbd’ (and only goes up to 600dpi, which is fine for documents, but not enough for some creative projects I’m working on)

So, I mentioned elsewhere that I had set up an automated scanning system but that the flatbed scanner I had purchased for the task (secondhand, from eBay) was defective. I had an old HP OfficeJet 6700 which has a scanner (and a document feeder, which I didn’t have with the other scanner!), but it doesn’t have a button on the device to trigger the scan request on the raspberry pi via scanbd.

So I hacked together an awful Flask web front end to provide the necessary buttons, each running the script with different parameters that mimic the scanbd environment.