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							|  |  |  |       <h1>SANE - Frontends (Applications)</h1> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  |     <h2>Graphical Multi-Purpose Frontends</h2> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<a href="http://www.xsane.org" target="_top">XSane</a> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	- improved graphical frontend for scanners: | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    improved enhancement functions (gamma handling) | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    histogram | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    stand-alone mode: | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 		scan and save utility (file formats: jpeg, png, pnm, ps, raw, | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		tiff) | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 		scan and view | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 		copy utility | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 		fax utility | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 		email utility | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    GIMP plug-in | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    supported platforms: | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 		OS/2 version with X11 | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 		<b>Windows 9x/NT/2000 network scanning version</b> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/quiteinsane" target="_top">QuiteInsane</a> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	- Graphical frontend based on Qt 2.2.x | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<a href="http://www.kde.org/apps/kooka/" target="_top">Kooka</a> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	- KDE frontend for sane | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<a href="man/xscanimage.1.html">xscanimage</a> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	- graphical frontend for scanners (included in sane-frontends): | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    stand-alone-version (scan and save utility, file format: pnm) | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    as GIMP plug-in | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<a href="http://www.objects.com.au/products/josi/scanlite" target="_top">scanlite</a> - free beta version of a | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	Java frontend using <a | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	  href="http://www.objects.com.au/products/josi" target="_top">josi</a> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<a href="http://digilander.iol.it/fbradasc/projects.html" target="_top">FlScan</a> - | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	graphical frontend based on FLTK | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_top">OpenOffice.org</a> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	includes a simple scan interface that uses SANE. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  |     <h2>Graphical Frontends for Specific Devices</h2> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<a href="man/xcam.1.html">xcam</a> - simple graphical frontend for cameras (included in | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	sane-frontends).  Unlike xscanimage it acquires images continuously. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<a href="http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/lsd_e.html" target="_top">Image Scan! for Linux</a> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	- graphical frontend for Epson scanners | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  |     <h2>Command-Line Frontends</h2> | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | 	<a href="man/scanimage.1.html">scanimage</a> - flexible | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	command-line-frontend including support for pnm and tiff output | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	(included in sane-backends). Use <a | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	href="man/gamma4scanimage.1.html">gamma4scanimage</a> to generate | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	gamma tables. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<a href="http://www.martoneconsulting.com/sane-scanadf.html" target="_top">scanadf</a> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	- command-line-frontend, offers additional capabilities for automatic | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	document feeders | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  |     <h2>Frontends for Specific Platforms</h2> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<strong>Windows</strong> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    <a href="http://sanetwain.ozuzo.net/" target="_top">SaneTwain</a> seems to be the most usable TWAIN data source for sane | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    <a href="http://www.winsane.cx/" target="_top">WinSANE 0.x.y.z.a (0.1.0.0)</a> (last update 2000-07-17) | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    <a href="ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/sane/twain-to-sane-bridge.tar.gz" target="_top">twain-to-sane-bridge</a> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	    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 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	    <a href="twain-to-sane-bridge.txt">information about it</a>. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<strong>MacOS X</strong> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    <a href="http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/" target="_top">TWAIN SANE Interface for MacOS X</a>: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	    This is a TWAIN datasource for MacOS X that aquires images using the SANE backend libraries. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<strong>OS/2</strong> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    <a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Reuters/" target="_top">ScanIt/2</a> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	    is a shareware (free until V1.0 is released) SANE GUI frontend for OS/2 by Richard Reuters. | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | 	    <a href="http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=tamehome" | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	    target="_top">Tame/2</a> is a GUI scanning application for OS/2. It | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	    uses scanimage for scanning, so it's not a real frontend by SANE | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<strong>BeOS</strong> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	    href="http://philippe.houdoin.free.fr/phil/beos/sanity/index-en.html" | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	    target="_top">Sanity</a>, a GUI frontend for BeOS.  | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<strong>NeXTStep</strong> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	      href="http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/9199/computer_NeXT.html" | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	      target="_top">NSane</a> is a SANE GUI frontend for NeXTStep. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  |     <h2>Miscellaneous Frontends</h2> | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 	<a href="man/saned.1.html">saned</a> - SANE network daemon for remote scanning (included in sane-backends) | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 	(<a href="http://www.penguin-breeder.org/?page=sane-net" target="_top">more information and documentation</a>) | 
					
						
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