Of course, my #selfhosted #raspberrypi #documentcamera solution is tailormade to my needs, but I think it can be turned into a neat little solution running inside a #docker container.

If somebody is interested, I will gladly share the code. Just contact me here.

But what about my initial plan to turn my #documentcamera into a #scanner and #photocopier ?

Initially, I was frustrated because I expected it meant hacking #scanservjs which would be a rocky road for me.

Instead, I did the following:
- using #ustreamer I created a live stream from document camera. Of course, I created a systemd service

- with some help from chatGPT I set up a simple web GUI with three buttons:

* Download current image
* Download as PDF (with text recognition)
* Print

What can I say?

Compiling a package from the source on a #raspberrypi takes a while 🙂

In my case, that kept the little one busy for the entire morning until early afternoon.

Anyhow: After manually installing the #Debian packages obtained from the process, scanimage sees both USB cameras attached to the raspi, a webcam and my document camera.

Now, let's see how this integrates with the rest of the setup 🙂

#Linux #sane #scanner #documentcamera #camera