wia_scan 0.2.0

wia_scan 0.2.0

wia_scan

A simple utility for using document scanners that support Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) and is easy to install. If your scanner works using Windows Fax and Scan, there is a good chance it will work with this python script.

Use case:

• You have a flatbed scanner and you need to scan a lot of documents, thus you don't want to use Windows Fax and Scan tool as it can introduce quite some overhead.

Alternatives: Existing WIA libraries, but to my surprise the ones I found required quite old versions of python, which I didn't want since I wanted to combine the scanning process with some modern python packages.

Everything on this page is still work in progress

Installation

pip install wia_scan

Alternative: From Source

Download this source and install flit uisng pip install flit and run the following command from the source folder

flit install

Usage

Command Line Interface

wia_scan many --callibration_file calib...

wia_scan list_devices

wia_scan single

wia_scan calibrate

Library Usage - Custom Loop

from wia_scan import scan

License

wia_scan is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.