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Recommend a frontend for SANE (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 days ago by akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

simple-scan aka Document scanner

[–] spacetff@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Wait, NAPS2 supports Linux too? It's my go to thing I install on people's computers when they want to scan things

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Scanservejs.

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

It's a web interface. A bit atypical.

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Thanks! 😀 I'll check it out immediately!