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Recommend a frontend for SANE (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I used to digitize old family photographs with my mom about five years ago. We used a Canon LiDE 300 on Windows 10.

Since then, I have matured. 🤣

I switched to Linux about two years ago - Artix btw - and now I want to revive this cozy tradition of digitizing photos. I'm looking at the Canon LiDE 400, but that's partially irrelevant. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SANE says it should be supported.

Question: do you have any experience with the frontends? Do you know if there is one that - like the proprietary Canon software for Windows - can pick out individual photographs from the scan surface? So that I don't have to manually crop the file afterwards.

Thanks in advance! 😊

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[–] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

Gnome normally brings their simple GNOME Document Scanner (simple-scan), KDE comes with skanlite or skanpage. xsane is an older GTK-based frontend, there's also the GIMP plugin using xsane. NAPS2 is an independent fully-featured frontend. And a lot of dedicated OCR software (including stuff like OCRFeederor Paperwork) also supports sane.

PS: even the basic tools support previews, then letting you select only the specific area you want to scan.

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