xsane can be run as a stand-alone program or through the GIMP image manipulation program. In stand-alone mode, xsane can save an image to a file in a variety of image formats, serve as a frontend to a fax program, or send an image to a printer. 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.). The SANE standard is free and its discussion and development are open to everybody. The current source code is written to support several operating systems, including GNU/Linux, OS/2, Win32 and various Unices and is available under the GNU General Public License (commercial applications and backends are welcome, too, however).
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Oh, I'm not the only one to say: easy to use program, does what is has to do, but... UI Gosh..
The interface is horrible, just HORRIBLE.
functionally OK but ui lacks
simple scanning :-)
does what it should do and does it very well. suits all my scanning needs.
Xsane behaves insane sometimes , but rather it does what it should as Haoji said ;)
It does what it should do.