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More information (scan-key-tool)

Uninstall Scan-key-tool

Run Scan-key-tool automatically on PC startup

Stop Scan-key-tool

List available Brother devices

Change the name of the target user

Set password

Hide a scanner device from Scan-key-tool

Change the action of Scan-key-tool (e.g. output to a pdf file)

Uninstall Scan-key-tool

1. Login as a superuser ( or use "sudo" option if it is required )

2. Uninstall Scan-key-tool

Command (for dpkg)  :  dpkg  -P  (scan-key-toolname)

Command (for rpm)  :  rpm  -e  (scan-key-toolname)

Example(for dpkg) | Example(for rpm)

3. Check the uninstallation.

Command (for dpkg)  :  dpkg  -l  |  grep  (scan-key-toolname)

Command (for rpm)  :  rpm  -qa  |  grep  -e  (scan-key-toolname)

Example(for dpkg) | Example(for rpm)

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Run Scan-key-tool automatically on PC startup

Add brscan-skey command to the startup programs list.

Example on Ubuntu8.04

1. Open "Startup Programs" (System > Preference > Sessions > Startup Programs)

2. Click "Add"

3. Type "brscan-skey" and click ok

Example on Mandriva2009.0

1. Open "Configure Your Desktop" (Menu > Tools > System Tools > Configure Your Desktop)

2. Open "Autostart" in "Advanced Tab"

3. Click "Add Program"

4. Type "brscan-skey" in the input box and click ok

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Stop Scan-key-tool

Command  :  brscan-skey  -t

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List available Brother devices

Command  :  brscan-skey  -l

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Change the name of the target user

1. login as the user which you want to change the target name which is displaied on the scanner LCD.

2. Change the name for brscan-skey

Command  :    brscan-skey  -u  (Newname-for-brscan-skey)

3. Restart brscan-skey

Command(Stop)  :    brscan-skey  -t

Command(Start)  :    brscan-skey  

***The new user name must be less than 16 characters, only alphabet and numbers can be used.

***Command without the name parameter will reset the name for brscan-skey.

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Set password

1. Run brscan-skey command with "-p" option.(superuser authorization is required)

Command  :    brscan-skey  -p  (4-numeric-digit-password)

2.Restart Scan-key-tool

Command(Stop)  :    brscan-skey  -t

Command(Restart)  :    brscan-skey  

3. The password is required on the device LCD to start scanning.

***To reset the password, use "brscan-skey -p" without parameters.(superuser authorization is required)

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Hide a scanner device from Scan-key-tool (Available only with network connected scanner)

1. check the device name.

Command  :    brscan-skey  -l

2. Delete the entry

Command  :    brscan-skey  -d  (device-name)

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Change the action of scan-key-tool

The actions taken by the scan-key-tool are described in the /usr/local/Brother/sane/brscan-skey-(version).cfg

Parameters
IMAGE=(The script for scan-to-image selection) OCR=(The script for scan-to-ocr selection) ***Scan-to-OCR is not available EMAIL=(The script for scan-to-email selection) FILE=(The script for scan-to-file selection)

Default shell script for scan-to-image;
/usr/local/Brother/sane/script/scantoimage-0.2.1-1.sh

Default shell script for scan-to-file;
/usr/local/Brother/sane/script/scantofile-0.2.0-1.sh

Default shell script for scan-to-email;
/usr/local/Brother/sane/script/scantoemail-0.2.0-1.sh

Example: Multiple sheets are scanned from ADF using scan-to-file, and it is made into one PDF file.

Change the file(/usr/local/Brother/sane/script/scantofile-x.x.x-x.sh) as follows.

NOTE:scanadf, pnmtops, and ps2pdf need to be installed.  
  
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#! /bin/sh
set +o noclobber
#
#   $1 = scanner device
#   $2 = friendly name
#

#   
#       100,200,300,400,600
#
resolution=100
device=$1
BASE=˜/brscan
mkdir -p $BASE

if [ "`which usleep`" != ' ' ];then
    usleep 10000

else
    sleep  0.01
fi
output_tmp=$BASE/$(date | sed s/' '/'_'/g | sed s/'\:'/'_'/g)

echo "scan from $2($device)"
scanadf --device-name "$device" --resolution $resolution -o"$output_tmp"_%04d
for pnmfile in $(ls "$output_tmp"*)
do
   echo pnmtops  "$pnmfile"  "$pnmfile".ps
   pnmtops  "$pnmfile"  > "$pnmfile".ps
   rm -f "$pnmfile"
done

echo psmerge -o"$output_tmp".ps  $(ls "$output_tmp"*.ps)
psmerge -o"$output_tmp".ps  $(ls "$output_tmp"*.ps)

echo ps2pdf "$output_tmp".ps   "$output_tmp".pdf
ps2pdf "$output_tmp".ps   "$output_tmp".pdf

#cleanup

for psfile in $(ls "$output_tmp"*.ps)
do
   rm $psfile
done
rm -f "$pnmfile".ps
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