How do I change saving location after scan

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Hello,
I'm writing a script to scan documents from an Image scanner device.
I imported the pyinsane2 module and everything works fine, but I want to change the location, of where the scanned document is saved. At the moment, it saves the new document in the same directory, where the script, I'm running to scan, is stored as well. So e. g. my script

scan.py

is stored in

C:\Users\Admin\Documents\pyinsane-2.0.2\examples

so the scanned document gets stored in examples too.
The line of code in the script, that causes this loooks like this:

img = scan_session.images[0]
img.save(output_file, "JPEG")

where img is the scanning process and output_file is the name of the document.
So the question is, what to type instead of 'save' to save the document where ever I want to.
I'm running a Windows 10 Computer using python 3.6. Thanks

What I have tried:

I haven't tried anything, because I couldn't find anything to the .save function from python and I don't want to create a folder using mkdir.

Posted 26-Feb-18 8:31am

pycoding

Updated 26-Feb-18 14:24pm

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Richard Deeming 26-Feb-18 14:54pm

Try specifying the full path in output_file, rather than just the file name.

pycoding 26-Feb-18 15:12pm

Thanks for the comment. So output_file is defined as args, with args = E.get() (E is an entry widget in my tkinter app). Where do I define the path here ?

Richard MacCutchan 27-Feb-18 4:19am

Write the path into the text box of the entry widget, or add it somewhere else in your code as a string.

pycoding 2-Mar-18 12:06pm

But the users types in the name of the document into the entry widget. The saving location should always be the same, just not where the script is stored.

Karthik_Mahalingam 21-Mar-18 23:46pm

Tip: use Reply button, to post Comments/query to the user, so that the user gets notified and responds to your text.

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