On: Google Kills Cloud Print

[vorpalhex]

Probably easy enough to throw this together in python and host it on your choice of cheap, lower power hardware (Raspberry pi, etc).

[tjohns → vorpalhex]

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.)

[RunningDroid → tjohns]

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

[noodlesUK → RunningDroid]

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.

[wibble10 → noodlesUK]

What do you use to do the actual ocr?

[noodlesUK → wibble10]

A python package called OCRmyPDF. It has same defaults and works very well for my use case.