SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, handheld scanner, video and still cameras, framegrabbers, etc.). The SANE standard is public domain and its discussion and development are open to everybody. The source code is written for UNIX (including Linux) and is available under the GPL, but commercial applications and backends are welcome. The package contains the libraries, net support, and scanimage. The X frontends xscanimage and xcam can be found in sane-frontends.
This package contains frontends to SANE ("Scanner Access Now Easy"), including xscanimage, xcam, and scanadf. Xscanimage is a GTK-based application for scanning images that can also be used as a GIMP-plugin. Xcam is used to get images from cameras supported by SANE. Scanadf is a command line frontend especially suited for scanners equipped with automatic document feeders (ADF).
Anonymous CVS server not working Currently the SANE anonymous CVS server doesn't work. Use the latest pre version from the website instead.
SANE webserver down The main SANE web, mail, and FTP server is down since 2001-12-01 due to the network shutdown of the @HOME network. A temporary backup (http://www.xsane.org/sane/) is available a...
Re: SANE webserver down There is now also a temorary mirror (http://www.xsane.org/sane/) of www.mostang.com at xsane.org.
SANE webserver down The SANE main server www.mostang.com (=ftp.mostang.com = panda.mostang.com) has lost its network connection because of the excite@home cable network shutdown since 2001-12-01. I...