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It seemed like a reasonably good idea to scan in any important receipts and keeping a file of them on the computer instead of whording lots of little bits of paper that are likely to get lost. Oh, and also, it's fun to use a paper shredder.

If something isn't easy to do and requests attention on a repeated basis, I won't get it done; for this reason, I made this as easy as possible :o)

What you need: A Linux box :), ImageMagick, sane

What it does:

1. create (if doesn't exist) a folder for the year
2. create (if doesn't exist) a folder for the month
3. scan the document in
4. convert the document to a PNG file
5. save the image with the name receipt_<ddDDD>.png (with an appended number for the count of docs scanned that day)
   1. ddDDD is numeric representation of the day DDD is a textual representation. e.g. 04Thu

You will need to change a couple of settings at the top of the script and should be good to go; however, I would recommend playing with the arguments passed to 'convert'

#!/bin/bash

#Set the folder and filename to save to
PARENTFOLDER="/home/rdy/Desktop/Dropbox/documents/receipts/scanned/`date +%Y`"
FILENAME="receipt_`date +%d%a`.png"

#Body of the script, do not change below this line
ROOTFOLDER="$PARENTFOLDER/`date +%b`"
COUNTER=0
if [ ! -G $ROOTFOLDER ]; then
  if [ ! -G $PARENTFOLDER ]; then
    mkdir $PARENTFOLDER #create folder for year
  fi
  mkdir $ROOTFOLDER #create folder for month
fi
while [ -G "$ROOTFOLDER/$FILENAME" ]; do
    let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
    FILENAME="receipt_`date +%d%a`_$COUNTER.png" #if the filename already exists, append the next number in the sequence
done

rm /tmp/scanimage.tiff #temporary image
echo "scanning image.."
scanimage --mode color --format tiff > /tmp/scanimage.tiff #perform the scan and save a temp copy
convert /tmp/scanimage.tiff -fuzz 25% -trim +repage -gravity east -chop 40x0 -bordercolor '#86838f' -border 5x5 -scale 1024 "$ROOTFOLDER/$FILENAME" #convert the image to a png to reduce the size

#check to see if the operation was successful
if [ -G "$ROOTFOLDER/$FILENAME" ]; then
  echo "Scanned image saved to $ROOTFOLDER/$FILENAME..." #success
  echo "Press enter to exit..."
else
  echo "Something went wrong, the file was not saved. Please try again" #FAIL
  echo "Press enter to exit..."

fi