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<sect2>
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<title>Introduction to <application><acronym>SANE</acronym></application></title>
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<para><acronym>SANE</acronym> is short for Scanner Access Now Easy.
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Scanner access, however, is far from easy, since every vendor has their own
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protocols. The only known protocol that should bring some unity into this
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chaos is the TWAIN interface, but this is too imprecise to
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allow a stable scanning framework. Therefore, <acronym>SANE</acronym> comes
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with its own protocol, so the vendor drivers can't be used.</para>
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<para><acronym>SANE</acronym> is split into back ends and front ends. The
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back ends are drivers for the supported scanners. The front ends are user
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interfaces to access the backends.</para>
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<sect3><title>Package information</title>
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<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
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url="&sane-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
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url="&sane-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Download size: &sane-size;</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required: &sane-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Estimated build time: &sane-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>
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<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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<listitem><para>Front ends: <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/sane/sane-frontends-1.0.11/sane-frontends-1.0.11.tar.gz"/></para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title><application><acronym>SANE</acronym></application> dependencies</title>
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<sect4><title>Optional</title>
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<para><xref linkend="libusb"/>,
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<ulink url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/libieee1284/">libieee1284</ulink>,
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<ulink url="http://www.gphoto.org/">gPhoto2</ulink>,
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X (<xref linkend="xfree86"/> or <xref linkend="xorg"/>), <xref linkend="GTK"/> and <xref
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linkend="gimp"/></para></sect4>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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