Manual Pages

• The SANE manual page: An introduction into SANE and its components
• sane-find-scanner: How to find the device where the scanner is connected
• The supported scanners page provides links to the manual pages for the backends (drivers)
• The applications (frontends) page provides links to the manual pages for the frontends

FAQ, HOWTO, Tutorial, Saned

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): The SANE FAQ was originally created by Nicolas de Peslouan and is now maintained by ljm Dullaart.
• Scanner HOWTO: The Scanner HOWTO was written by Howard Shane to document the steps necessary for access and use of a photographic scanner device on a system running Linux. Despite it's a Linux HOWTO, most of the contents is useful for other platforms, too.
• Tutorial: The SANE Scanner Interface: A tutorial on the ideas behind SANE appeared in Linux Journal Issue 47, March 1998. This is an HTML "reprint" of that article. Keep in mind that the article is quite old. The basic ideas are still true, however.
• Saned, the SANE Network Scanning Daemon: How to set up the SANE Network Daemon is explained here.

Programmer's Manual (SANE Standard)

Version 1.0 (stable)

The document for the SANE API and the network protocol is available in a number of formats:

• HTML
• PostScript

Version 2.0 (development)

The SANE standard version 2 is currently in development. It shouldn't be used yet for production software because some important parts are still missing. Most of the work to update the standard has been done by Andreas Beck and Oliver Rauch. The discussion takes place on the sane-devel mailing list. The standard is in CVS, see CVS page. The SANE2 standard is in branch DEVEL_2_0_BRANCH-1. Use the following command to get this branch:

  export CVS_RSH=ssh 
  cvs -z3 -d:ext:developername@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/sane co -d sane2 -r DEVEL_2_0_BRANCH-1 sane-backends
    

There is a TODO list and some snapshots of the standard are available in several formats:

• SANE2 standard draft 0.08 as HTML (or tex, dvi, ps)
• SANE2 standard draft 0.07 as HTML (or tex, dvi, ps)
• SANE2 standard draft 0.06 as tex, dvi, ps
• SANE2 standard draft 0.05 as tex, dvi, ps

Related Documentation

• GTK+: The GTK+ toolkit is used by the graphical frontends that come with SANE.
• SCSI-2 draft: This manual is useful to learn about SCSI in general and also has a section on scanner-related commands. A PDF version is also available.
• UMAX scanner documentation for developers

SANE homepage

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