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Don't Forget --- Local - Boston, MA - 03/18/98 BLU.ORG - SANE Overview Keywords: Linux Unix Scanners Hardware SANE Imaging Devices March 18, 1998 :: Wednesday :: 7:00 p.m. Topic: An Overview of S.A.N.E. Presented by: Christoph Doerbeck (doerbeck at dma.isg.mot.com) Location: MIT Building 3-133 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. ********************************************************************* The Boston Linux & Unix Group [BLU.ORG], is the successor to the Boston Computer Society's Linux & Unix User Group. We want to promote the awareness and use of Open Systems, and to educate the public and our members about Open Systems. Linux is a UNIX-like operating system built around POSIX standards. >From its inception less than seven years ago, it was developed over the Internet by a group of people who (for the most part) have never seen each other, and now runs on an (estimated) 1,500,000 computer systems. The operating system (and the source code for it) is free to anyone who wants it. It has been ported to at least the following platforms: Intel, SPARC, Alpha, MIPS, PPC, and M68K. This is probably the largest development project ever accomplished using the Internet. For the latest information on this presentation, please see the URL: >>>> http://www.blu.org/ <<<< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ********************************************************************* Guy W. Bzibziak - Boston Linux & Unix - BLU.ORG <guybz at world.std.com> Astor Station http://www.blu.org P. O. Box 230040 Boston, MA 02123-0040 --------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Fingerprint: 9C 86 CA 11 14 95 9E 99 E5 C9 25 7D 6F 8F F7 82 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Voice# (Days Only): 617-536-5200 FAX# (Days Only): 617-536-0394 *********************************************************************
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