Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)
Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 12:47:30
Message-Id: 87h90wygtq.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane) by Neil Bothwick
1 On Sun, May 07 2017, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > On Sat, 06 May 2017 19:22:50 -0400, allan gottlieb wrote:
4 >
5 >> I received many helpful replies, each of which recommend a tool other
6 >> than sane. Is the point that sane can't use the document feeder or just
7 >> that you prefer (or simply have used) other tools.
8 >
9 > SANE is mainly intended as the infrastructure for scanning. The other
10 > tools, with the exception if IScan, all use SANE but provide a more
11 > functional interface.
12 >
13 > For example, gscan2pdf that I use supports both single and double sided
14 > ADF and can also scan a bunch of pages twice if your scanner only does
15 > single sided. It provides a number of post scan processing tools and can
16 > save in a variety of formats. But at its heart it uses libsane.
17
18 Good to know. Thanks.
19 allan