Comment on Selfhosting a printer (and scanner) server with UI
vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I use SANE for scanning.
- install
sane-utils - configure
/etc/sane.d/saned.conf, list the IP adresses or network allowed to connect - start
saned.socket
on your client (linux desktop)
- add the SANE server IP to to the config
echo “192.168.xx.xx” > /etc/sane.d/net.conf - list the scanners
scanimage -L
The scanner is also automatically listed in scanning utilities like simple-scan etc. Don’t know about phones or other devices, I assume there are scanner auto-discovery utilities. I don’t know about Web UIs, just use native printing/scanning features of your OS.
This won’t work for Android windows and such devices. And it’s a pain to setup, won’t work 100% and some scanners are ven worse .
Scanservejs is the final solution for all platforms.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
This. The goal is to have guests and family able to scan from whatever device, not from my huge linux gaming rig 😂. This one works already. And as said, point is covered, now I need the same for printing.
For document scanning I use this f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fairscan.app/ directly on the phone, works well even with a shitty camera.
I never had the need to print from android but I found this f-droid.org/…/io.github.benoitduffez.cupsprint/, it might work.
Scanservejs looks nice but one more service to maintain and secure. I guess I’m a minimalist.