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# sane-backends
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SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.).
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The SANE API is public domain and its discussion and development is open to everybody.
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The current source code is written for UNIX (including GNU/Linux) and is available under the GNU General Public License (the SANE API is available to proprietary applications and backends as well, however).
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SANE is a universal scanner interface.
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The value of such a universal interface is that it allows writing just one driver per image acquisition device rather than one driver for each device and application.
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So, if you have three applications and four devices, traditionally you'd have had to write 12 different programs.
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With SANE, this number is reduced to seven: the three applications plus the four drivers.
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Of course, the savings get even bigger as more and more drivers and/or applications are added.
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This is the libraries package.
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