Low-end Brother Scanners

[mhupfauer]

Hi *,

as my Brother scanner does not support any standalone network scanning capabilities I dockerized a small consumer that should work for almost all brother scanners without network scanning abilities.

You can view the whole ordeal here: https://github.com/mhupfauer/infrastructure/tree/master/images/brother_scan

Just change the Dockerfile to match your printers ip and model number.

Build
docker build -t yourname/brscan .

Run
docker run --rm -d --network host --name br_consumer -v <paperless-consumer-dir>:/consume:rw yourname/brscan:latest

This will run the brscan-skey so that you can initiate the scan from the printer and consume the documents from adf or flatbed as individual .pngs. When consumption is complete these individual .pngs are merged into one muli-page .tiff file which is copied to /consume this is the directory that gets mounted to the same folder as paperless consumption directory.

As a workaround the image sets the permissions for the consumption directory to 777 so that paperless-ng can read and delete the files after consumption.