| 1 | <sect2>
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| 2 | <title>Introduction to <application><acronym>SANE</acronym></application></title>
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| 3 |
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| 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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| 6 | protocols. The only known protocol that should bring some unity into this
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| 7 | chaos is the TWAIN interface, but this is too imprecise to
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| 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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| 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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| 13 | interfaces to access the backends.</para>
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| 14 |
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| 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-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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| 21 | <listitem><para>Download size: &sane-size;</para></listitem>
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| 22 | <listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required: &sane-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 23 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time: &sane-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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| 24 | </sect3>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>
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| 27 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 28 | <listitem><para>Front ends: <ulink
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| 29 | url="ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/sane/sane-frontends-1.0.11/sane-frontends-1.0.11.tar.gz"/></para></listitem>
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| 30 | </itemizedlist>
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| 31 | </sect3>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <sect3><title><application><acronym>SANE</acronym></application> dependencies</title>
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| 34 | <sect4><title>Optional</title>
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| 35 | <para><ulink url="http://libusb.sourceforge.net/">libusb</ulink>,
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| 36 | <ulink url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/libieee1284/">libieee1284</ulink>,
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| 37 | <ulink url="http://www.gphoto.org/">gPhoto2</ulink>,
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| 38 | <xref linkend="xfree86"/>, <xref linkend="GTK"/> and <xref
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| 39 | linkend="gimp"/></para></sect4>
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| 40 | </sect3>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | </sect2>
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