scanning an image from command line looks trivial using scanimage
(http://www.sane-project.org/man/scanimage.1.html). You can convert from
tiff to pdf quite easily.
I would say this would be the most flexible solution whatever you want
to do, for example a bash script to pull emails from a text file based
on a username or a small web server which provides some authentication
and a scan button.
/KB
On 23/08/2011 20:37, Rory Browne wrote:
> Another thing you could do, assuming you can enter email addrs manually, and set a default domain, would be to set up 'tokens', which on a server specific to the scanner would be an alias to a particular persons mailbox.
>> That way, you could just have people type in their 2 letter token ( with a base 26 encoding, this would give you 676 tokens, which means you can hire 176 more staff, before you'd have to go into three letter tokens, or increase the base ).
>> You could also reserve 26 single letter tokens for heavy, or senior users.
>> Rory
>> Apologies for typos - sent from a touchscreen....
>> On 23 Aug 2011, at 13:52, Gareth Eason<bigbro at skynet.ie> wrote:
>>> On 22/08/11 15:44, Pete McEvoy wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>> I'd like to provide a scan to email function for 500 or so users and
>>> wondered if anyone knows any software that would facilitate this.
>>> Currently we have kyocera scanners/printers that scan to tiff/pdf but
>>> these only allow us to store up to 100 email addresses.
>>>>>> If anyone has any experience with something like this I'd love to hear about it.
>> [snip]
>>>> We've implemented this in house (for a smaller number of people) by
>> just letting them type their e-mail address in. This means more effort
>> when scanning, but it's something that's done infrequently enough that
>> no-one seems to mind.
>>>> For extra bonus points, route the mails through a server that provides
>> you with some statistics as to which users use the service most often
>> and put the top 100 in the 'saved e-mails' slots. You might find that
>> this optimises things sufficiently for the frequent scanner users, and
>> allow the less frequent users to just type in their address. I'm
>> assuming the Kyocera provides an interface to allow e-mail address entry
>> in a similar fashion to the Xerox Document Centre here.
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>> Best regards,
>> -->Gar
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