[7008de1] | 1 | <sect2>
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[781a3e82] | 2 | <title>Introduction to <application><acronym>SANE</acronym></application></title>
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[7008de1] | 3 |
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[616ce29] | 4 | <para><acronym>SANE</acronym> is short for Scanner Access Now Easy.
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| 5 | Scanner access, however, is far from easy, since every vendor has their own
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[ec3c746] | 6 | protocols. The only known protocol that should bring some unity into this
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[781a3e82] | 7 | chaos is the TWAIN interface, but this is too imprecise to
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[ec3c746] | 8 | allow a stable scanning framework. Therefore, <acronym>SANE</acronym> comes
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| 9 | with its own protocol, so the vendor drivers can't be used.</para>
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| 10 |
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[5e18c49c] | 11 | <para><acronym>SANE</acronym> is split into back ends and front ends. The
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| 12 | back ends are drivers for the supported scanners. The front ends are user
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[ec3c746] | 13 | interfaces to access the backends.</para>
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[7008de1] | 14 |
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[ec3c746] | 15 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 16 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 17 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
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| 18 | url="&sane-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 19 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
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| 20 | url="&sane-be-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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| 21 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
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| 22 | url="&sane-fe-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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[5e18c49c] | 23 | <listitem><para>Download size: &sane-be-size; (Back ends), &sane-fe-size;
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| 24 | (Front ends)</para></listitem>
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[ec3c746] | 25 | <listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required:
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[5e18c49c] | 26 | &sane-be-buildsize; (Back ends), &sane-fe-buildsize; (Front ends)</para></listitem>
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[ec3c746] | 27 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time:
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| 28 | &sane-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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| 29 | </sect3>
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| 30 |
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[781a3e82] | 31 | <sect3><title><application><acronym>SANE</acronym></application> dependencies</title>
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[ec3c746] | 32 | <sect4><title>Optional</title>
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| 33 | <para><xref linkend="xfree86"/>, <xref linkend="GTK"/> and <xref
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| 34 | linkend="gimp"/></para></sect4>
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| 35 | </sect3>
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[7008de1] | 36 |
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| 37 |
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| 38 | </sect2>
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