Post #3764174

2026-07-12 15:23 UTC

Recommend a frontend for SANE 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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@Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2026-07-12 15:38

Scanservejs. Here instructions as per my wiki wiki.gardiol.org/7-services/scanservjs It’s a web interface. A bit atypical.

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@Ooops@feddit.org 2026-07-12 16:37

Gnome normally brings the 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.

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@spacetff@lemmy.ml 2026-07-14 16:17

Give “'xsane” a look… featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). Simple, easy to use: 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 I use it often similar to your workflow… help.ubuntu.com/community/XSane

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@SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 2026-07-15 12:33

simple-scan aka Document scanner

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