I&rsquo;ve had long time a plan to scan all receipts and documents and save them to Evernote in order to find what I need quickly, even when mobile. Problem I&rsquo;ve been lazy scanning because there are so many steps: Connect scanner to a computer Open scanning software Place the document inside the scanner Click scan

Scan to Evernote with Rasberry Pi - Reaktor

I’ve had long time a plan to scan all receipts and documents and save them to Evernote in order to find what I need quickly, even when mobile.

I’ve been lazy scanning because there are so many steps:

Plug the scanner to a Rasberry PI (connected to internet) and keep it always on. Have the physical scanner buttons scan and send to different targets (Evernote, Dropbox, printer, email).

<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/help/noobs-setup/">Install Raspbian</a>

Install scanner software: <code>apt-get install sane</code>

Install scanbd to control scanner buttons:apt-get install libconfuse-dev libhal-dev libsane-devwget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/scanbd/releases/scanbd--1.3.1.ziptar zxvf scanbd.tar.gz./configuremakemake install

Install mutt mail client: <code>sudo apt-get install mutt</code>

<a href="http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/using-gmail-with-mutt-the-minimal-way/">Configure smtp for mutt</a> (place the configuration under <code>/root</code>):

Install imagemagic: <code>sudo aptitude install imagemagic</code>

<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&amp;t=12530">Take control of one of the Rasberry PI’s led</a>:echo 1 &gt; /sys/class/leds/led0/brightnessecho 0 &gt; /sys/class/leds/led0/brightness

<a href="https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader">Set up Dropbox commandline client</a>

Configure scanbd:echo 1 &gt;/sys/class/leds/led0/brightness DIR=`dirname $0`scan_dir=/var/spool/scandatetime=`date +%F_%H%M%S`filename=scan-$datetimecase $SCANBD_ACTION inpdf)# Not working;;scan)# Upload to dropbox, used for photosscanimage --mode Color --depth 32 | convert - $scan_dir/$filename.jpgdropbox_uploader.sh upload $scan_dir/$filename.jpg  /;;copy)# Print with default printerscanimage --depth 16 | convert - $scan_dir/$filename.jpglp $scan_dir/$filename.jpg;;email)# Send to Evernote via emailscanimage --mode Color --depth 16 | convert - -normalize -level 10%,90% -sharpen 0x1 $scan_dir/$filename.jpg echo "" | mutt username.secret@m.evernote.com -a $scan_dir/$filename.jpg -s "$filename" -d 5;;esacrm $scan_dir/$filename.jpgecho 0 &gt;/sys/class/leds/led0/brightness exit 0

apt-get install libconfuse-dev libhal-dev libsane-dev

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/scanbd/releases/scanbd--1.3.1.zip

echo 1 &gt; /sys/class/leds/led0/brightness

echo 0 &gt; /sys/class/leds/led0/brightness

echo 1 &gt;/sys/class/leds/led0/brightness 

scanimage --mode Color --depth 32 | convert - $scan_dir/$filename.jpg

dropbox_uploader.sh upload $scan_dir/$filename.jpg  /

scanimage --depth 16 | convert - $scan_dir/$filename.jpg

scanimage --mode Color --depth 16 | convert - -normalize -level 10%,90% -sharpen 0x1 $scan_dir/$filename.jpg 

echo "" | mutt username.secret@m.evernote.com -a $scan_dir/$filename.jpg -s "$filename" -d 5

echo 0 &gt;/sys/class/leds/led0/brightness 

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