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>6. SANE Frontends</H1
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>Now that you've got the hardware working, you should probably acquire a suitable frontend if you plan on using your scanner device in X11, which is probably a good idea to look at what you've scanned.
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My personal favorite is as elegant and functional as any proprietary solution I've seen, <A
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>xsane</A
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It has an attractive GTK+ based GUI, can save the image to a variety of formats, send an image to the printer, and interface easily with the <A
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>GIMP</A
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It makes accessing the full color and other potential of your hardware quite easy.</P
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>The GIMP, or GNU Image Manipulation Program, is an outstanding application for image editing if you are interested in scanning from within a <SPAN
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>Photoshop</SPAN
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>™-like application.
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The xsane module may be available as a separate package depending on your Linux distribution.
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After starting GIMP, click 'File,' then 'Acquire' followed by 'Xsane:device dialog' to access your scanner.</P
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>Another highly recommended frontend is <A
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>Kooka</A
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It has an intuitive interface that integrates easily with other KDE applications and can greatly simplify management of large image collections.</P
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>Xscanimage is a somewhat simpler (but still powerful) scanner application for X11 to acquire images from your scanner.
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It may or may not come bundled with the SANE backends depending on your distribution. See <B
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>man xscanimage</B
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>You can find a more complete list of SANE frontends at <A
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>the SANE frontends page</A
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