The SANE FAQ was originally created by Nicolas de Peslouan and is now maintained by ljm Dullaart.
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 usful for other platforms, too.
A tutorial on the ideas behind SANE appeared in Linux Journal Issue 47, March 1998. This is an HTML "reprint" of that article.
How to set up the SANE Network Daemon is explained here.
The document for the SANE API and the network protocol is available in a number of formats:
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:
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