---
name: "pct-scanner-script"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pct-scanner-scripts"
version: "0.0.4-3.2"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pct-scanner-script"
---

# pct-scanner-script(1)

easy scan and create merged DjVu and PDF documents for archiving

## NAME

pct-scanner-script - easy scan and create merged DjVu and PDF documents for archiving

## SYNOPSIS

**pct-scanner-script** \[*--help*\]\

## DESCRIPTION

**pct-scanner-script** is a bash script and configuration system to easily scan documents and create a digital archiving. It can create DjVu PDF and JPEG outputs, in merged and individual files. It also has a configuration system where different configurations can be defined, making it easy to switch between configurations.

Please use **pct-scanner-script --help** to find all program options, the complete help, and all examples.

**Features:**\
   \- auto archiving in merged and individual DjVu, PDF, and JPEG files\
   \- auto and manual resume when scanning somehow fails\
   \- cascading configuration system, for easy customizing\
   \- easy command-line-style bash program, with useful options\
   \- archiving made possible with both adf and flatbed scanners\
   \- built for productivity and daily use\
   \- uses bash, scanadf and other mainstream processing tools\
   \- multilanguage commandline output

## OPTIONS

- **-h, --help, -?**

  Show summary of options, help, and examples.

## DEBUGGING

This program is a helper script to easy scan and automated digital document archiving for normal and adf scanners. You can debug this script by running it as bash -x pct-scanner-script \[options\]. The script is just a nice wrapper for the scanadf, DjVu and PDF tools.

## SEE ALSO

[**scanadf**(1)](/scanadf/1.md),\

## AUTHOR

- pct-scanner-script and this manual page are written by:

  Jelle de Jong \<jelledejong@powercraft.nl\>.