Recommend a frontend for SANE

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I used to digitize old family photographs with my mom about five years ago. We used a Canon LiDE 300 on Windows 10.

Since then, I have matured. 🤣

I switched to Linux about two years ago - Artix btw - and now I want to revive this cozy tradition of digitizing photos. I’m looking at the Canon LiDE 400, but that’s partially irrelevant. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SANE says it should be supported.

Question: do you have any experience with the frontends? Do you know if there is one that - like the proprietary Canon software for Windows - can pick out individual photographs from the scan surface? So that I don’t have to manually crop the file afterwards.

Thanks in advance! 😊

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Gnome normally brings their simple GNOME Document Scanner (simple-scan), KDE comes with skanlite or skanpage. xsane is an older GTK-based frontend, there’s also the GIMP plugin using xsane. NAPS2 is an independent fully-featured frontend. And a lot of dedicated OCR software (including stuff like OCRFeederor Paperwork) also supports sane.

PS: even the basic tools support previews, then letting you select only the specific area you want to scan.

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Scanservejs.

Here instructions as per my wiki https://wiki.gardiol.org/7-services/scanservjs

It’s a web interface. A bit atypical.

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they/them OP

Thanks! 😀 I’ll check it out immediately!

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simple-scan aka Document scanner

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Give “’xsane” a look… featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). Simple, easy to use.

I use it often for work similar to yours

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XSane

  • Supports several scanning protocols; handles multiple image acquisition devices efficiently: scanners, cameras, video devices
  • Allows detailed prescan adjustments w/preview – for example: select area (”…pick out individual photographs from the scan surface") , contrast, brightness, dpi, to name a few
  • Settings for professional scanning; available but not necessary to ‘fiddle’ with: https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/computing/printing/xsane
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they/them OP

Thanks! I just set up my desktop environment so I’ll try it sometime this week 😊

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