If you're looking for a simple way to use a multi-page scanner and get your document into a PDF in Linux without any proprietary or commercial software, then ScanPDF might be the solution. I wrote it to quickly take the Linux SANE scanner system output image files, and process them …

Here's how I managed to get Linux to recognise scan button presses on the S1500, and automatically initiate a scan to a pdf file. You first need to download Scanbd and install it. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any apt repository for Scanbd, so I had to download the …