---
title: 'Scan quickly from terminal and convert image to .jpg'
url: 'https://darkball.net/scan-quickly-from-terminal-and-convert-image-to-jpg'
markdown: 'https://darkball.net/scan-quickly-from-terminal-and-convert-image-to-jpg.md'
date: '2015-02-07'
description: 'I played around with few different scanning softwares on Ubuntu, and noticed that it is possible to scan from terminal by issuing quickscan command. By searching more, I found out that the image it creates is in .pnm format. I decided to add converting images from pnm to jpg format in the script. The sc'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - bash
    - scan
  archives_month:
    - feb_2015
  archives_year:
    - '2015'
---

# Scan quickly from terminal and convert image to .jpg

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