# SANE - Frontends (Applications)

## Graphical Multi-Purpose Frontends

- XSane - improved graphical frontend for scanners:
  - improved enhancement functions (gamma handling)
  - histogram
  - stand-alone mode:
    - scan and save utility (file formats: jpeg, png, pnm, ps, raw, tiff)
    - scan and view
    - copy utility
    - fax utility
    - email utility
  - GIMP plug-in
  - supported platforms:
    - Unix (Linux, IRIX, AIX, ...)
    - OS/2 version with X11
    - Windows 9x/NT/2000 network scanning version
- QuiteInsane - Graphical frontend based on Qt 2.2.x
- Kooka - KDE frontend for sane
- xscanimage - graphical frontend for scanners (included in sane-frontends):
  - stand-alone-version (scan and save utility, file format: pnm)
  - as GIMP plug-in
- scanlite - free beta version of a Java frontend using josi
- FlScan - graphical frontend based on FLTK
- OpenOffice.org includes a simple scan interface that uses SANE.

## Graphical Frontends for Specific Devices

- xcam - simple graphical frontend for cameras (included in sane-frontends). Unlike xscanimage it acquires images continuously.
- Image Scan! for Linux - graphical frontend for Epson scanners

## Command-Line Frontends

- scanimage - flexible command-line-frontend including support for pnm and tiff output (included in sane-backends). Use gamma4scanimage to generate gamma tables.
- scanadf - command-line-frontend, offers additional capabilities for automatic document feeders

## Frontends for Specific Platforms

- Windows
  - SaneTwain seems to be the most usable TWAIN data source for sane (continuously updated).
  - WinSANE 0.x.y.z.a (0.1.0.0) (last update 2000-07-17)
  - twain-to-sane-bridge is a first try of a bridge between TWAIN for windows and SANE. It uses the network scanning version of scanimage and is able to connect via network to a scanner connected to a Unix or OS/2 machine. Texts are written in German and the tool may not work with all backends, you should see it more as a test version than as a stable tool. Here you can find some information about it.
- OS/2
  - ScanIt/2 is a shareware (free until V1.0 is released) SANE GUI frontend for OS/2 by Richard Reuters.
  - Tame/2 is a GUI scanning application for OS/2. It uses scanimage for scanning, so it's not a real frontend by SANE definition.
- NeXTStep
  - NSane is a SANE GUI frontend for NeXTStep.

## Miscellaneous Frontends

- saned - SANE network daemon for remote scanning (included in sane-backends) (more information and documentation)

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