Free sane software for linux

XSane is a graphical scanning frontend. XSane uses the SANE-library to talk to scanners. This means that XSane does not support any scanners itself.
If you have any problems or questions that are related to your scanner then please contact the author of the sane-backend that supports your scanner or for general questions contact the SANE mailinglist. Here you can find out which scanners are supported by the SANE-library.
XSane is designed for acquiring images with scanners (there are other devices like cameras and videodevices supported by SANE, but XSane is not designed for that purpose).
You can scan to file, do a photocopy, create a fax, create and send a mail and start XSane from the GIMP as gimp plug in.
Enhancements:
- Black point compensation was added to the printer setup dialog.
- A PostScript bug was corrected.
- Several bugs in the color ICM profile handling were fixed.

SANE Frontends project contains frontends to SANE ("Scanner Access Now Easy"), including xscanimage, xcam, and scanadf. Xscanimage is a GTK-based application for scanning images that can also be used as a GIMP-plugin.
Xcam is used to get images from cameras supported by SANE. Scanadf is a command line frontend especially suited for scanners equipped with automatic document feeders (ADF).
Here are some of the frontends included in the package:
- XSane - improved graphical frontend for scanners:
- improved enhancement functions (gamma handling)
- histogram
- stand-alone mode:
o scan and save utility (file formats: jpeg, png, pnm, ps, raw, tiff)
o scan and view
o copy utility
o fax utility
o email utility
- GIMP plug-in
- supported platforms:
o Unix (Linux, IRIX, AIX, ...)
o OS/2 version with X11
o Windows 9x/NT/2000 network scanning version
- QuiteInsane - Graphical frontend based on Qt 2.2.x
- Kooka - KDE frontend for sane
- xscanimage - graphical frontend for scanners (included in sane-frontends):
- stand-alone-version (scan and save utility, file format: pnm)
- as GIMP plug-in
- scanlite - free beta version of a Java frontend using josi
- FlScan - graphical frontend based on FLTK
- OpenOffice.org includes a simple scan interface that uses SANE.
Enhancements:
- bug fixes

Sanetracker is a pattern based MIDI sequencer. In December 2002 it became a part of the KDE project, so SourceForge will only be used for web for now (and not CVS).
The current version of Sanetracker can use raw MIDI devices (OSS/Free) and the ALSA sequencer, thus supporting virtually all sound cards having a driver for Linux. Getting high precision timers to work under Linux (necessary for synchronizing synthesizers) is hard, so currently you need an external clock to use Sanetracker.
Cakewalk Instrument Defintion files are used for instrument definitions. If you dont have such files for all of your synths, patch selection will become difficult. Sanetracker will download instruments from an online database on request, but you might need to use Google to find the ones you need.
Song files are stored in Standard MIDI Format (SMF), also known as .mid-files. SMF is extendable, and almost all MIDI applications support it, so theres no reason not to use it.
Install:
- vim Makefile (edit CONFIG_*, which is your include dirs)
- make dep
- make all
- cp sane
- mkdir ~/.sanetracker/
- cp config.xml ~/.sanetracker/
- vim ~/.sanetracker/config.xml
Usage:
./sane MySong.xml.gz
The file will be created if it doesnt exist.

tiffscan is an advanced SANE frontend. It has batch mode capabilities and can generate compressed multi-page TIFF files. The project handles from black and white to 8-bit and 16-bit scans.

Arachne project is a Perl-driven adventure and RPG game.
Arachne is a RPG game written on top of the Shadowed Horizons framework. It aims to make it possible for novice programmers to learn as they go, and for more experienced programmers to contribute their experience to a versatile and interesting gaming concept.
It is currently being managed by the Shadowed Horizons development team, but is seeking new developers to maintain the day to day development operations. We are looking for individuals who would like to create their own game using our libraries and utilities to serve as the application framework.
Because we are writing a framework that will allow novice programmers to write a game of their own, we strongly encourage anyone who has the desire to work on this project to contact us. Experts may be more comfortable and also of more help if they work on our Shadowed Horizons framework project, but anyone is welcome to begin working on Arachne, which will showcase the creativity that can be acchieved through our powerful but intuitive gaming engine.
This game is currently in its planning stages, but will be actively developed in the near future. The faster we gain assistance, the faster the project will become active. Nevertheless, we will eventually get it up and running, even without the addition of new developers, but that may take some time.
Enhancements:
- Arachne has now developed a saner version numbering scheme.
- Everything in Engine.pm was basically moved to Char.pm to improve organization.
- There are still lots of annoying warnings that Perl throws all the time.
- Ugly/stupid things were changed.
- Stupid and/or redundant stuff has been largely eliminated.
- The character stat screens have been fixed up and now look a little bit nicer.
- The code has been cleaned up a little but is still really kludgy

Santa Fe Desktop Linux is an easy to use desktop operating system. It puts some of the worlds best open source applications within the reach of non-technical users. It even runs right off the CD so you can try it without installing.
Santa Fe Desktop Linux was built following these design goals:
Make it familiar. Present the user a familiar interface where they dont have to guess which buttons do what.
Keep it small. The distribution should install and run from a single CD.
Make it useful to normal users. The distribution should be useful to a large non-technical audience.
Keep it fun. Make sure audio and video work to the best of their abilities so the users can play games and enjoy multimedia without hassle.
Leave the user alone. Hardware should always be automatically detected and configured without the users help. Software configuration should automatically have sane defaults.
Unlike other operating systems, Santa Fe is designed to automatically configure itself everytime it runs. It will auto-detect the right drivers for your hardware and configure it all to the best of its abilities. No more troublesome driver installs. Santa Fe works best in Plug and Play and DHCP environments.
Main features:
- A viable alternative to your current operating system (OS).
- Imagine if your OS came preinstalled with a fully featured photo editing and image creation program.
- Imagine if every OS included an animation and 3D graphics creation program.
- What if your OS came standard with finance management and desktop publishing applications?.
- Now imagine if all those things were available for $39.95.
- Santa Fe Linux offers the open source solution to the seemingly impossible dream described above. Santa Fe comes with a program called the GIMP, a fully featured digital photo editing and image/graphics creation program. Blender, another standard program, is a 3D graphics, animation, rendering, and post production program. Managing finances is easy with GNU Cash, an open source program that gets your finances organized quickly. Desktop publishing is simple with Scribus, a program that allows you to create everything from newsletters to a fully produced magazine.
- Also, Santa Fe features a full office suite that is compatible with Microsoft? Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook.
- Additional programs that come with Santa Fe Linux:
- Gnome Meeting: Video teleconferencing application.
- Audacity: Records, renders, and applies digital effects to audio.
- Kino: Digital video editor.
- XMMS: Audio player that supports a wide variety of audio file formats.
- Anjuta: Developers program which allows users to create their own applications/programs.
- Also, at a price of 82.99, Santa Fe is now available with Codeweavers Crossover Office. This program allows users to install the Microsoft? Office Suite including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and Access.

KScannerButtons is a daemon plus a KDE application for monitoring your scanner buttons:

Perform a copy with one button press,
Send a paper document via email,
Open a paper document in gimp with one button press...

Its composed of a daemon (sanebuttond) and a frontend that will display an icon in the systray and a dialog box to configure and launch the daemon, KScannerButtons.kmdr.

KScannerButtons is based on the button monitoring capabilities found in some SANE backends. It has been tested with the avision backend, and a HP 5300C scanner. I read on some mailing lists that the fujitsu backend may also support buttons monitoring (but never tested).

The daemon may be used outside of the KDE environment (I should release it separately).