Henning's SANE Page

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SANE - Scanner Access Now Easy

SANE is a universal scanner interface for Unix operating systems. It supports a lot of SCSI, parallel port and USB scanners. There is also support for some other devices like cameras. You can find more information at the SANE website. If you want to use SANE, please read the documentation on this site and the files provided by the SANE distribution. See also below for other sources of information.

This page is an overview of the backends and other SANE stuff that's hosted on www.meier-geinitz.de.

This is not about Microsoft Windows. I can't help you with this operating system. Don't ask questions about Windows drivers. No, I don't have drivers for XP.

What's on this web site?

SANE backends (drivers)

• Mustek USB2 backend: Supports Mustek BearPaw 2448 TA Pro. Intends to support other Mustek USB2 scanners.
• Mustek a3p1 backend: Supports Mustek P 3600 A3 PRO. Intends to support other Mustek USB2 scanners.
• GT68XX backend: Supports USB scanners based on the Grandtech GT-6801 and GT-6816 chips, e.g. most Mustek BearPaw, some Artec, Plustek, and Lexmark models as well as clones of these scanners.
• Genesys backend: Supports some USB scanners based on the Genesys Logic GL646. It's intended to also support GL841 chips later.
• MA-1509 backend: Supports the Mustek BearPaw 1200F.
• Mustek USB backend: Supports some older Mustek ScanExpress USB scanners.
• Mustek SCSI backend: Supports most Mustek SCSI scanners.
• IBM backend: Supports the IBM 2456 and Ricoh IS-420 (+ maybe IS-410 and IS-430).
• Test backend: For testing SANE without hardware.

Other SANE-related stuff

• sane-troubleshoot: Find out what's wrong with your SANE installation
• CVS snapshots of SANE
• List of Mustek scanners (not) supported by SANE
• Some information about the Linux USB scanner driver
• How to create SANE backends without documentation
• MD5 hashes of the recent releases of sane-backends and sane-frontends

General SANE documenation

Documentation contained in the SANE distribution

• Installation instructions for SANE: README. Special notes for several platforms: README.platform, e.g. README.linux.
• SANE manual page (since version 1.0.5): man sane. General information about SANE.
• Information about the backends and how to configure them: man sane-gt68xx, man sane-mustek, man sane-mustek_usb, man sane-test.
• Information regarding SCSI: man sane-scsi.
• Information regarding USB: man sane-usb.

Online Information

• SANE documentation page, includes links to manual pages, the FAQ and HOWTO and the SANE standard.
• #sane IRC channel on irc.freenode.net
• SANE mailing list archive, you may find answers to special problems here.
• A mirror of the SANE homepage, in case the main page is down.
• Information about USB: Linux USB pages
• The manufacturerers and vendors: Mustek Taiwan, Mustek USA, Mustek Germany, Trust.

Last modified: 2008-03-02 16:13:41 CET by Henning Geinitz)

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