https://github.com/charles-m-knox/go-fltk-sane

A lightweight GUI application that scans your documents via a USB document scanner.
https://github.com/charles-m-knox/go-fltk-sane

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A lightweight GUI application that scans your documents via a USB document scanner.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/charles-m-knox/go-fltk-sane
• Owner: charles-m-knox
• License: agpl-3.0
• Created: 2024-09-10T00:17:13.000Z (4 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-10T00:19:26.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-10T04:09:58.803Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Size: 23.4 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# go-fltk-sane

Allows you to leverage the `sane` framework to scan documents with a scanner.

Runs an FLTK-based UI that is light on memory.

## Usage

Requires `CGO_ENABLED=1` because FLTK leverages C bindings.

```bash

go get -v

go build -v

./go-fltk-sane

```

## About

This project was hacked together relatively quickly and was my first experiment with FLTK (fast light toolkit).

Originally, I leveraged another Go library that interfaces with `sane` but unfortunately there were memory management issues (memory would not be garbage collected properly on each document scan action). I had to rewrite much of the application to instead parse the CLI output of `scanimage` - this mean that you need to install the `sane` package on your system and ensure that `scanimage` is available.

Additionally, this program is not foolproof. It isn't going to detect every possible setting for your scanner, only a few defaults. I'm not trying to boil the ocean, I just wanted a barebones FLTK scanner application that worked for my use case.

## Screenshots

I will try to add screenshots in the future.