[NTLUG:Discuss] Image Scanning

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Fri Jul 20 16:00:24 CDT 2001


Dennis Myhand wrote:
> 
> Can someone point me in the direction of some image scanning software
> for Linux?  Thanks, Dennis in Victoria, formerly of Waco

The low level software is called 'SANE' (compare to TWAIN for Windoze).

SANE comes with scanimage and xscanimage - but once you have SANE installed,
several other packages can also do scanning (GIMP for example).

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