airscan 📄 🖨️ 🕸️

The airscan Go package can be used to scan paper documents 📄 from a scanner 🖨️ via the network 🕸️ using the Apple AirScan (eSCL) protocol.

Getting started: example program

First, install the example program coming with this package:

go get -v github.com/stapelberg/airscan/cmd/airscan1

Then, query the local network for AirScan compatible devices:

% airscan1 -discover=5s
2020/08/16 08:50:31 finding airscan-compatible devices for 1s
2020/08/16 08:50:31 device "Brother MFC-L2750DW series" discovered (use -host="BRW405BD8AxxDyz")

Now, I can scan the contents of the flatbed scanner:

% airscan1 -host=BRW405BD8AxxDyz
2020/08/16 08:52:44 finding device for 5s (use -timeout=0 for unlimited)
2020/08/16 08:52:45 device "Brother MFC-L2750DW series" found in 298.151935ms
2020/08/16 08:52:51 scan done in 6.738205326s

…or the page(s) inserted into the Automatic Document Feeder (ADF):

% airscan1 -host=BRW405BD8A10D7C -source=adf
2020/08/16 11:10:34 finding device for 5s (use -timeout=0 for unlimited)
2020/08/16 11:10:34 device "Brother MFC-L2750DW series" found in 112.127399ms
2020/08/16 11:10:45 wrote /tmp/page12.jpg (211305 bytes)
2020/08/16 11:10:47 wrote /tmp/page13.jpg (139335 bytes)
2020/08/16 11:10:47 scan done in 13.068799513s

Getting started: using the package in your program

See the package airscan examples in godoc for how to use the package to scan.

See airscan1.go for a full example scan program, including network service discovery, timeouts, and writing scan data to files.

Project status

The package does what I needed: grayscale/color scan of A4 documents from the flat bed or the automatic document feeder (ADF).

If you have any improvements, I’d be happy to review a pull request. Please see the contribution guidelines.

Tested devices

If you successfully scanned documents from your device using the airscan1 example program as described above, please send a pull request to include your report in this table for the benefit of other interested users:

Device Name	Working features	Known issues
Brother MFC-L2750DW	flat bed scan, automatic document feeder scan
HP Laserjet M479fdw	flat bed scan, automatic document feeder scan