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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by vorpalhex on Friday November 22, 2019 @02:59PM (#21609442)
Probably easy enough to throw this together in python and host it on your choice of cheap, lower power hardware (Raspberry pi, etc).
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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by tjohns on Friday November 22, 2019 @03:11PM (#21609547)
It'd also be very trivial to script with a Mac using Folder Actions and a 5 line AppleScript.

(I wish Linux had an equivalent to Folder Actions. They’re really nifty.)

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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by RunningDroid on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:15PM (#21611121)
The Linux equivalent of Folder Actions would probably either be inotify¹ or inotify-tools².

1:https://linux.die.net/man/7/inotify

2:https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki

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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by noodlesUK on Friday November 22, 2019 @08:35PM (#21611831)
A much easier to use tool that works using inotify is incron. It's basically like cron except for inotify events. I have a one-liner that OCRs all of my incoming scans, and it's immensely helpful.
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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by wibble10 on Saturday November 23, 2019 @04:56AM (#21613334)
What do you use to do the actual ocr?
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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by noodlesUK on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:44PM (#21635225)
A python package called OCRmyPDF. It has same defaults and works very well for my use case.
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