Graphical Multi-Purpose Frontends

• XSane - improved graphical frontend for scanners:
  • NEW: with color management support (ICC/ICM profiles)
  • 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
• Kooka/libkscan - KDE 3.x frontend for sane
• Skanlite/libksane - KDE 4.x 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, at least on Unix/Linux platforms.
• QuiteInsane - Graphical frontend based on Qt 2.2.x (discontinued since 2004)
• sane-pygtk - a minimalistic SANE graphical front end. It uses PIL (Python Imaging Library) as the python binding to SANE, and PyGTK as the graphical user interface library.
• gscan2pdf - a GUI to produce a multipage PDF from a scan.
• openDIAS - a document imaging & archive project.
• Paperwork - a program to use scanners and OCR to grep dead trees the easy way. It uses the Pyinsane Python binding to interface with SANE (and Windows WIA API).

Graphical Frontends for Specific Devices

• Eikazo - a GTK and Python based frontend for Sane. It is intended mainly for usage with ADF scanners. It has one major goal: to be fast.
• xcam - simple graphical frontend for cameras (included in sane-frontends). Unlike xscanimage it acquires images continuously.
• Image Scan - graphical frontends for Epson scanners. Enter your scanner model in the search box to get a download page for the right frontend. Note, the binary packages may contain non-free blobs that only work on i386 and amd64/x86_64 hardware.

Command-Line Frontends

• scanimage - flexible command-line-frontend including support for pnm and tiff output (included in sane-backends). Use gamma4scanimage to generate gamma tables.
• scanadf - command-line-frontend, offers additional capabilities for automatic document feeders

Web-based Frontends

• phpSANE is a web-based frontend written in PHP. It uses scanimage internally.
• scanserv is a simple web-based UI for SANE which allows you to share a scanner on a network.
• SANEcgi allows accessing scanners via the web using scanimage internally.

Frontends for Specific Platforms

• Android
  • SANEDroid: enables remote scanning from conventional "saned" and network-enabled desktop scanners to your mobile device without the requirement for a physical cable connection.
• Windows
  • SaneTwain seems to be the most usable TWAIN data source for sane (continuously updated).
  • 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.
  • sanedotnet - C#/Mono bindings
  • wiasane provides a Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) Driver which enables image acquisition from scanner devices through the SANE network protocol.
  • SANEWinDS Enables use of SANE scanners from Windows hosts with or without TWAIN
• MacOS X
  • TWAIN SANE Interface for MacOS X: This is a TWAIN datasource for MacOS X that aquires images using the SANE backend libraries.
• OS/2
  • 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.
• BeOS
  • Sanity, a GUI frontend for BeOS.
• Java
  • 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.
  • Morena Image Acquisition Framework for Java Platform.
  • jfreesane A pure-Java implementation of a SANE client.

Miscellaneous Frontends

• saned - SANE network daemon for remote scanning (included in sane-backends) (more information and documentation)
• scanbd - Daemon for monitoring scanner buttons and sensors, and running specific programs in response.

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