On Sun, May 07 2017, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 06 May 2017 19:22:50 -0400, allan gottlieb wrote: > >> I received many helpful replies, each of which recommend a tool other >> than sane. Is the point that sane can't use the document feeder or just >> that you prefer (or simply have used) other tools. > > SANE is mainly intended as the infrastructure for scanning. The other > tools, with the exception if IScan, all use SANE but provide a more > functional interface. > > For example, gscan2pdf that I use supports both single and double sided > ADF and can also scan a bunch of pages twice if your scanner only does > single sided. It provides a number of post scan processing tools and can > save in a variety of formats. But at its heart it uses libsane.
Good to know. Thanks. allan
