SANE is short for Scanner Access Now Easy. Scanner access, however, is far from easy, since every vendor has their own protocols. The only known protocol that should bring some unity into this chaos is the TWAIN interface, but this is too imprecise to allow a stable scanning framework. Therefore, SANE comes with its own protocol, so the vendor drivers can't be used. SANE is split into back ends and front ends. The back ends are drivers for the supported scanners. The front ends are user interfaces to access the backends. Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download size: &sane-size; Estimated Disk space required: &sane-buildsize; Estimated build time: &sane-time; Front ends: libusb, libieee1284, gPhoto2, , and