Overview of S.A.N.E.
Date and Time
Wednesday, March 18, 1998 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location
MIT Building 3-133
Presenters
Christoph Doerbeck , Principal Solutions Architect , Red Hat Software - cdoerbec redhat com
Summary
Document scanning on Linux
Abstract
SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.). The SANE standard is free and its discussion and developement is open to everybody. The current source code is written for UNIX (including Linux) and is available under the GNU public license (commercial application and backends are welcome, too, however). SANE is a universal scanner interface. The value of such a universal interface is that it allows writing just one driver per image acquisition device rather than one driver for each device and application. So, if you have three applications and four devices, traditionally you'd have had to write 12 different programs. With SANE, this number is reduced to seven: the three applications plus the four drivers. Of course, the savings get even bigger as more and more drivers and/or applications are added.
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