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Scanning

SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) may be used to acquire images from scanners.

As a prerequisite, install the sane package. To list discovered scanners:

$ scanimage -L

For additional options, consult scanimage(1).

Scanner Drivers

If the scanner is not discovered by scanimage -L, it may require a driver.

Driverless scanning

Many different models of scanner support "driverless" scanning via the AirScan or WSD protocols. The sane-airscan driver may be utilized in these cases. This should cover the vast majority of modern scanner hardware.

Applications acting as frontends to SANE will also use the sane-airscan driver if present, but do not depend on it, so it's recommended to install this and have it available.

Other scanner drivers

If the scanner is not detected with sane-airscan, a manufacturer-specific driver may be required.

HP

See "HP drivers".

Brother

  • brother-brscan3
  • brother-brscan4
  • brother-brscan5

Epson

  • imagescan

Samsung

  • samsung-unified-driver

Frontend Applications

The traditional XSane frontend is available as xsane.

GNOME

GNOME's Document Scanner is available as simple-scan.

KDE

Two KDE applications are available: skanpage and skanlite.