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Commands tagged scanner

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scanimage -p --resolution 250 --mode Gray -x 215.9 -y 279.4 | pnmtops -imageheight 11 -imagewidth 8.5 | ps2pdf - output.pdf
2013-04-12 18:18:42
User: dbh
Functions: scanimage
Tags: pdf scan scanner
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Scan a document to PDF

Adjust the --resolution and --mode as required (if these options are available for your scanner).

The size options (-x, -y, -imageheight, -imagewidth) are for US letter paper. For A4, I think the command would be:

scanimage -p --resolution 250 --mode Gray -x 210 -y 297 | pnmtops -imageheight 11.7 -imagewidth 8.3 | ps2pdf - output.pdf
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nmap -T4 -sn 192.168.1.0/24
2012-06-19 17:07:24
User: drewbled
Tags: Network scanner ip address
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scan subnet for used IPs

Does a ping scan on the local subnet and returns the IPs that are up

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convert -compress jpeg *.jpg mydoc.pdf
2011-05-01 13:37:09
User: hute37
Tags: ImageMagick pdf scanner
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Generate a (compressed) pdf from images

use imagemagik convert

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pdftk A=odd.pdf B=even.pdf shuffle A1-end Bend-1S output duplex.pdf
2011-02-25 15:00:09
User: till
Tags: pdf scan scanner pdftk duplex
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PDF simplex to duplex merge

Joins two pdf documents coming from a simplex document feed scanner. Needs pdftk >1.44 w/ shuffle.

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for p in {1..1023}; do(echo >/dev/tcp/localhost/$p) >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "$p open"; done
2010-04-26 18:09:22
User: benyounes
Functions: echo
Tags: scanner socket
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Simplest port scanner

Very handy way to perform a host scan if you don't have nmap,ncat,nc ...or other tools installed locally.

When executing a command on a /dev/tcp/$host/$port pseudo-device file, Bash opens a TCP connection to the associated socket and UDP connection when using /dev/udp/$host/$port.A simlpe way to get servers banner is to run this command "cat < /dev/tcp/localhost/25" , here you will get mail server's banner.

NOTE: Bash, as packaged for Debian, does not support using the /dev/tcp and /dev/udp pseudo-device it's not enabled by default Because bash in Debian is compiled with ?disable-net-redirections.

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for i in {21..29}; do nc -v -n -z -w 1 192.168.0.$i 443; done
2009-09-25 03:31:29
User: rez0r
Tags: netcat scan scanner nc port
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Port scan a range of hosts with Netcat.

Simple one-liner for scanning a range of hosts, you can also scan a range of ports with Netcat by ex.: nc -v -n -z -w 1 192.168.0.1 21-443

Useful when Nmap is not available:)

Range declaration like X..X "for i in {21..29}" is only works with bash 3.0+

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gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=test.pdf multipageproject.pdf
2009-03-24 17:14:46
User: iain
Functions: gs
Tags: pdf scan scanner xsane
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Optimize Xsane PDFs

Xsane produces PDFs that are too large - particularly multipage PDFs. This command compresses them. If you do not use A4, remove the -sPAPERSIZE flag.

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