In general, more SCSI scanners are supported than parallel scanners.
Because of the ongoing development effort, new scanners are being supported all the time. You
can find a current list of supported scanners at www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-
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devices.html, with USB scanners listed at www.buzzard.me.uk/jonathan/scannersusb.
html. As for applications, some of the more widely used tools available today include:
xsane??”An X-based graphical front end for SANE scanners, xsane can work as a GIMP
plug-in or as a separate application (from most KDE desktops, select Graphics???Scanning).
It supports 8-bit output in JPG, TIFF, PNG, PostScript, and PNM formats. There is experimental
16-bit support for PNM (ASCII), PNG, and raw formats.
scanimage??”Use this command-line interface to obtain scanned images. The command
acquires the scanned image, and then directs the data to standard output (so you can
send it to a file or pipe it to another program). It supports the same formats as xsane.
In addition to these applications, the OpenOffice.org suite supports SANE.
Because of the architecture of SANE scanner drivers, it is possible to separate scanner drivers from
scanner applications. This makes it possible to share scanners across a network.
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