PAPEREASE

Section: User Commands (1)

NAME

paperease - a driver for the Primax Paperease scanner

paperease [-8] [-p port] [filename]

paperease DOES NOT come with ANY WARRANTY, NOT even an IMPLIED WARRANTY.

-8: this flag causes paperease to scan 8 bit greyscale images rather than black and white 1 bit images, the default file name will be scanNNNN.pageNNN.pgm rather than scanNNNN.pageNNN.pbm
-p port: causes paperease to use the parallel port at the address port. port may be in decimal or if prefixed by 0x in hexadecimal.
filename: set the filename to which the scanned images will be written, a printf style string will be expanded to the page number. By default paperease looks for the first filename of the form scan%04d.page001.{pbm,pgm,png} which doesn't exist and uses that as a base.
any other option will cause paperease to print a brief help message.

paperease allows you to use the Primax Paperease scanner under Linux and other x86 operating systems.

BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN QUITTING paperease. It is possible to leave the scanner in a state with its motor coils turned on, you should not kill paperease except by pressing CTRL-C which will cause paperease to attempt to turn off the scanner. However if your scanner melts or sets fire to your cat it's entirely your problem this software comes with NO WARRANTY. That said running paperease with no arguments and then killing it with SIGINT or CTRL-C should shutdown the scanner.
Solenopsis invicta Burens
paperease doesn't do calibration very well.

Paperease may well be a trademark of Primax.