XSane

A program to work with scanner. Can be used as a scanning, copier, OCR, fax tools.

Photo & VideoFree software
Debian (recommended) Ubuntu Fedora openSUSE Void Linux Slackware Gentoo Nixpkgs

About

xsane can be run as a stand-alone program or through the GIMP image manipulation program. In stand-alone mode, xsane can save an image to a file in a variety of image formats, serve as a frontend to a fax program, or send an image to a printer. 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 development are open to everybody. The current source code is written to support several operating systems, including GNU/Linux, OS/2, Win32 and various Unices and is available under the GNU General Public License (commercial applications and backends are welcome, too, however).

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GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-or-later (free software)What this license lets you do

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Debian · Ubuntu · Fedora · openSUSE · Void Linux · Slackware · Gentoo · Nixpkgs

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October 12, 2026
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SourceNameVersionBuilt byLicenseDescription
Debianxsane0.999-12.2Distribution build—featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
Ubuntuxsane0.999-13Distribution build—featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
Fedoraxsane0.999Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-or-laterX Window System front-end for the SANE scanner interface
Nixpkgsxsane0.999Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-laterGraphical scanning frontend for sane
openSUSExsane0.999Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-laterA GTK-Based Graphical Scanning Front-End for SANE
Void Linuxxsane0.999_7Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-laterGTK-based X11 frontend for SANE
Slackwarexsane0.999-8Distribution build—xsane (Graphical frontend to SANE, Scanner Access Now Easy)
Gentooxsane0.999-r6Distribution buildGPL-2.0-onlyGraphical scanning frontend
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