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Recommend a frontend for SANE (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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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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[–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

Give "'xsane" a look... featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). Simple, easy to use.

I use it often for work similar to yours

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XSane

  • Supports several scanning protocols; handles multiple image acquisition devices efficiently: scanners, cameras, video devices
  • Allows detailed prescan adjustments w/preview -- for example: select area ("...pick out individual photographs from the scan surface") , contrast, brightness, dpi, to name a few
  • Settings for professional scanning; available but not necessary to 'fiddle' with: https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/computing/printing/xsane
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