babolivier / scanner
The motivation behind it is that my parents own an HP printer which can also scan documents. While printing over the network works pretty well, the only way they can scan over the network is by using the proprietary HP app, which is non-free, annoying to use and requires the creation of an account on their platform to interact using your own printer on your own network.
Given my parents are mostly using their tablets and smartphones while at home, and they want to get rid of their 15-year-old desktop computer, which main use nowadays is for scanning documents, I figured I'd write a simple app they can use to trigger scans.
The project comes in two parts, a web application and a server. The web app is served to my parents' devices and interacts with the server when they want to preview or scan a document. The server runs on a Raspberry Pi 4, which is connected to the printer via USB, and interacts with it using SANE.
Once a scan is complete, the resulting file is uploaded to my Nextcloud instance using WebDAV. My parents can then use the Nextcloud app on their devices to retrieve it.
