scantopl

Automatically send scanservjs scanned document to paperless-ngx

How to configure

Usage of /usr/bin/scantopl:
  -config string
        path to config file
  -pltoken string
        Paperless auth token , generated through admin (default "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")
  -plurl string
        The paperless instance URL without trailing / (default "http://localhost:8080")
  -scandir string
        Scanserjs ouput directory (default "/home/scanservjs/output")

or you can use envvar : SCANDIR, PLTOKEN, PLURL

provide the paperless-ngx url , the paperless-ngx token and the scanservjs output dir ( or bind to /output in docker)

How to use it

• Scan something
• if you want to send it to paperless-ngx , go in the scanservjs file section and rename file to add prefix pl_ ( test_scan.pdf -> pl_test_scan.pdf)
• the file is submitted with name "test_scan" ( remove prefix and extension automatically) then remove source file is deleted

How it work

• listen for file creation in the scanservjs output dir
• if a newly created file start with pl_ , upload it to paperless
• If uploaded succefully, remove file from scanservjs output

Install

go binary

Have a working go env then

go install github.com/Celedhrim/scantopl@master

Docker

$ docker run --rm \
  -v /your/host/scanservjs/output:/output \
  -e PLURL=https://paperless.yourdomain.instance \
  -e PLTOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXX \
  ghcr.io/celedhrim/scantopl:master