SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) is an open source and 100% free command-line API (Application Programming Interface) that offers standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware.
SANE is comprised of a backend, a daemon, and a scanner finder. It supports flatbed scanners, handheld scanners, video and still cameras, framegrabbers, and much more.
At the moment, several X11 front-ends for the SANE software exist, such as xscanimage and xcam, which can be found in sane-frontends package.
These days, SANE is distributed by default in major Linux operating systems, including Ubuntu, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Fedora or Mageia.
What is new in this release:
- Significant enhancements to canon_dr, epjitsu, epsonds, fujitsu, genesys, hp3500, pixma and xerox-mfp backends.
- Minor updates, bugfixes or scanners added in several backends.
- 30+ new scanner models supported.
- Made libusb-1.0 the default for USB support.
- Switched code from C90 to C99 (Thanks to Volker Diels-Grabsch).
- Updated Linux USB3 workaround.
- Documentation and translation updates.
- Bugfixes (Avahi, threading, USB, ICC/PNG/JPEG, etc).
- Reduced compiler warnings, improved code.
What is new in version 1.0.25:
- New backends: epsonds (Epson DS, PX and WF series), pieusb (PIE and Reflecta film/slide scanners).
- Support for JPG and PNG output format in scanimage.
- Significant enhancements to avision, canon_dr, epjitsu, fujitsu, genesys, kodakaio and pixma backends.
- Minor updates, bugfixes or scanners added in several backends.
- 300 new scanner models supported.
- Workaround for USB3 problems in Linux kernel.
- Added code for IR functionality.
- Documentation and translation updates.
- Bugfixes (threading, networking, udev rules).
What is new in version 1.0.24:
- Significant enhancements to pixma, genesys, kodakaio, fujitsu, canon_dr.
- Minor updates, bugfixes or scanners added in several backends.
- Added new testsuite
- 51 new scanner models supported.
- USB support improvements.
- Improved build system (mingw64, bug fixes, default pthread on Linux).
- Documentation updates.
- Bugfixes.
What is new in version 1.0.22:
- New backends: kvs20xx (Panasonic KV-S20xx), magicolor (Konica-Minolta).
- Significant enhancements to several backends.
- More than 80 new scanner models supported.
- Support many more networked scanners.
- Added -A option to scanimage.
- Improved build system.
- Improved USB support.
- Improved udev rules.
- Documentation updates.
- Bugfixes.
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