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.sane-project.org/pub/sane/sane-frontends-1.0.12/sane-frontends-1.0.12.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><xref linkend="libusb"/>,
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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 | X (<xref linkend="xfree86"/> or <xref linkend="xorg"/>), <xref linkend="GTK2"/> 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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