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.

Graphical Frontends for Specific Devices

• 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

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

Frontends for Specific Platforms

• 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.
• 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
  • 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.

Miscellaneous Frontends

• saned - SANE network daemon for remote scanning (included in sane-backends) (more information and documentation)

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