SANE Frontends 1.0.13 review

This package contains frontends to SANE ("Scanner Access Now Easy"), including xscanimage, xcam, and scanadf

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Henning Meier-Geinitz

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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).

Here are some of the frontends included in the package:
- XSane - improved graphical frontend for scanners:
* improved enhancement functions (gamma handling)
* histogram
* stand-alone mode:
o scan and save utility (file formats: jpeg, png, pnm, ps, raw, tiff)
o scan and view
o copy utility
o fax utility
o email utility
* GIMP plug-in
* supported platforms:
o Unix (Linux, IRIX, AIX, ...)
o OS/2 version with X11
o 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.