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 cases:
- 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.
- Support scanners on Windows using a simple python dependency
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.
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 <version>
Usage:
wia_scan list_devices
wia_scan single_side
wia_scan many_flatbed
wia_scan --help
Options:
-h --help Show this screen.
--version Show version.
Library Usage - Custom Loop
Example: Scan 10 single sided documents from the same scanner:
import os
from wia_scan import *
print_function = print
device_manager = get_device_manager()
device_identifier = prompt_choose_device(device_manager=device_manager, print_function=print_function)
device = connect_device(device_manager=device_manager,
device_identifier=device_identifier, print_function=print_function)
for i in range(10):
os.system("pause")
wia_image = scan_side(device=device, settings=DEFAULT_SCAN_SETTINGS,
print_function=print_function)
wia_image.SaveFile(f'{i}.jpeg')
License
wia_scan is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
1 maintainer
Metadata
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