glfs/pst/scanning/sane/sane-intro.xml
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<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application><acronym>SANE</acronym></application></title>
<para><acronym>SANE</acronym> 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, <acronym>SANE</acronym> comes
with its own protocol, so the vendor drivers can't be used.</para>
<para><acronym>SANE</acronym> 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.</para>
<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
url="&sane-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&sane-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &sane-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required: &sane-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time: &sane-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Front ends: <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/sane/sane-frontends-1.0.11/sane-frontends-1.0.11.tar.gz"/></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3><title><application><acronym>SANE</acronym></application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para><ulink url="http://libusb.sourceforge.net/">libusb</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/libieee1284/">libieee1284</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://www.gphoto.org/">gPhoto2</ulink>,
<xref linkend="xfree86"/>, <xref linkend="GTK"/> and <xref
linkend="gimp"/></para></sect4>
</sect3>
</sect2>