What is SANE?

• A standard and associated software for image acquisition

• Improves on TWAIN

• Specifies a communication protocol

• Fully multiplatform

Why Use SANE?

• Broadest hardware support under Linux

• Great for standard image acqusition

• Can be used in nonstandard ways

Problems and Workarounds

• Not all hardware is supported

• Some hardware is inherently problematic

• Sorry, no Linux OCR yet

• Alternatives exist

Further information

 Last updated 23-02-99, at 7:00pm