SANE - Frontends (Applications)
Graphical Multi-Purpose Frontends
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XSane
- 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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Unix (Linux, IRIX, AIX, ...)
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OS/2 version with X11
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Windows 9x/NT/2000 network scanning version
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Kooka
- KDE frontend for sane
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xscanimage
- 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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scanlite - free beta version of a
Java frontend using josi
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FlScan -
graphical frontend based on FLTK
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OpenOffice.org
includes a simple scan interface that uses SANE.
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QuiteInsane
- Graphical frontend based on Qt 2.2.x (discontinued since 2004)
Graphical Frontends for Specific Devices
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xcam - simple graphical frontend for cameras (included in
sane-frontends). Unlike xscanimage it acquires images continuously.
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Image Scan! for Linux
- graphical frontend for Epson scanners
Command-Line Frontends
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scanimage - flexible
command-line-frontend including support for pnm and tiff output
(included in sane-backends). Use gamma4scanimage to generate
gamma tables.
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scanadf
- command-line-frontend, offers additional capabilities for automatic
document feeders
Web-based Frontends
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phpSANE is a web-based
frontend written in PHP. It uses scanimage internally.
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SANEcgi
allows accessing scanners via the web using scanimage internally.
Frontends for Specific Platforms
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Windows
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SaneTwain seems to be the most usable TWAIN data source for sane
(continuously updated).
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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.
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MacOS X
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OS/2
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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.
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BeOS
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Sanity, a GUI frontend for BeOS.
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Java
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Asprise
JSANE provides SANE access APIs in Java. Saned on the local or a
remote computer is used. It's a commercial product but a trial
version is also available.
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Morena Image
Acquisition Framework for Java Platform.
Miscellaneous Frontends
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