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 - 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.
• QuiteInsane - Graphical frontend based on Qt 2.2.x (discontinued since 2004)
• sane-pygtk - a minimalistic SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) 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.

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! 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

Web-based Frontends

• phpSANE is a web-based frontend written in PHP. It uses scanimage internally.
• SANEcgi allows accessing scanners via the web using scanimage internally.

Frontends for Specific Platforms

• 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.
• 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.

Miscellaneous Frontends

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

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$Date: 2007-07-14 10:08:15 $ $Author: gekl-guest $