simple-scan(1)

simple-scan1

Scanning utility

Usage

simple-scan [DEVICE]

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the simple-scan command.

Document Scanner is an easy-to-use application, designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.

Document Scanner has been written with GTK+ libraries, and after installing the application you can run it from the Applications menu.

Options

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

-d, --debug

Print debugging messages.

-v, --version

Show release version.

-?, --help

Show help options.

--help-all

Show all help options.

-d, --help-gtk

Show GTK+ options.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 6.0–10
  2. 11–Arch

Author

simple-scan was written by Robert Ancell <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Alessio Treglia <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

From simple-scan 50.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.