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SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application
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programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any
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raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner,
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video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.). The SANE API is public
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domain and its discussion and development is open to everybody. The
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current source code is written for UNIX (including GNU/Linux) and is
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available under the GNU General Public License (the SANE API is
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available to proprietary applications and backends as well, however).
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More details about the license can be found on our license page. Ports
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to MacOS X, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows are either already done or in
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progress.
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SANE is a universal scanner interface. The value of such a universal
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interface is that it allows writing just one driver per image
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acquisition device rather than one driver for each device and
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application. So, if you have three applications and four devices,
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traditionally you'd have had to write 12 different programs. With SANE,
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this number is reduced to seven: the three applications plus the four
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drivers. Of course, the savings get even bigger as more and more drivers
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and/or applications are added.
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SANE-BACKENDS comes complete with documentation, several backends,
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scanimage command line frontend, and networking support. For
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other/graphical frontends take a look at sane-frontends and XSane.
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