Graphical Multi-Purpose Frontends

• XSane (temporarily offline!) - 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).
• SimpleScan - a GNOME document scanning application.
• NAPS2 (Not Another PDF Scanner) - a free and open source scanning software for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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.
• scanservjs an updated version of scanserv based on nodejs.
• Dynamic Web TWAIN is a document scanning SDK based on SANE, TWAIN and ICA, etc.

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 and OS X
  • Homebrew: This is a build/port of the SANE backends by the Homebrew project.
  • TWAIN SANE Interface for MacOS X: This is a TWAIN datasource for MacOS X that aquires images using the SANE backend libraries.
  • AirSane: Serves scanners to macOS, Windows, Linux, and Android devices using the eSCL (AirScan) protocol. In addition, provides a simple web interface.
• 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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