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.

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

scanimage - command-line-frontend (included in sane-backends)
scanadf - command-line-frontend, offers additional capabilities for automatic document feeders

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.

saned - SANE network daemon for remote scanning (included in sane-backends) (more information and documentation)
TkScan is a graphical interface to scanimage and some older scan programs. It supports only some specific scanners but may be helpful in special cases anyway.

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