A Reminder on this Wendesday's Meeting Regarding SANE

[guybz at world.std.com (Guy W Bzibziak)]

Don't Forget ---

Local - Boston, MA - 03/18/98 BLU.ORG - SANE Overview

Keywords: Linux  Unix  Scanners  Hardware  SANE  Imaging Devices

March 18, 1998 :: Wednesday :: 7:00 p.m.
Topic: An Overview of S.A.N.E.
Presented by: Christoph Doerbeck (doerbeck at dma.isg.mot.com)
Location: MIT Building 3-133

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 developement is open to
everybody. The current source code is written for UNIX (including
Linux) and is available under the GNU public license (commercial
application and backends are welcome, too, however).

SANE is a universal scanner interface. The value of such a
universal interface is that it allows writing just one driver per
image acquisition device rather than one driver for each device and
application. So, if you have three applications and four devices,
traditionally you'd have had to write 12 different programs. With
SANE, this number is reduced to seven: the three applications plus
the four drivers. Of course, the savings get even bigger as more
and more drivers and/or applications are added.

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