SANE: External Backends (Drivers)

This is only a summary! Please consult the manpages and the author-supplied webpages for more detailed (and usually important) information concerning each backend.

If you have new information or corrections, please file a bug report with as many details as possible. Also please tell us if your scanner isn't mentioned in this list at all.

For an explanation of the tables, see the legend.

Summary

Scanners

Backends: brother, brother-mfc4600, brother2, cs3200f, epkowa, geniusvp2, hp3770, hp3900, hp8200, hpaio, hpoj, hp_rts88xx, lhii, mustek_a3p1, primascan, primax, samsung, scanwit, viceo

Backend: brother

Link(s): http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/sane_drivers.html
Comment: External backend made by brother. As this software contains non-free parts, it can't be included into SANE. If you can't find your model here, please have a look at the brother website which contains the latest list.

Backend: brother-mfc4600

Link(s): http://sourceforge.net/projects/brother-mfc

Backend: brother2

Link(s): http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/sane_drivers.html
Comment: External backend made by brother. As this software contains non-free parts, it can't be included into SANE. If you can't find your model here, please have a look at the brother website which contains the latest list.

Backend: cs3200f

Comment: Backend is in experimental CVS

Backend: epkowa (2.3.0)

Link(s): http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/index.html

Backend: geniusvp2

Link(s): http://sourceforge.net/projects/geniusvp2/
Comment: Supports color mode, bit depth of 8, 75-600 dpi resolution

Backend: hp3770

Link(s): http://www.cyberbaladeur.fr/telechargement.html
Comment: This backend can't be added to the SANE distribution because it consists of binary-only code.

Backend: hp3900 (0.9)

Link(s): http://sourceforge.net/projects/hp3900-series/
Manual page:sane-hp3900
Comment: Still Beta

Backend: hp8200

Link(s): http://www.cyberbaladeur.fr/telechargement.html
Comment: This backend can't be added to the SANE distribution because it consists of binary-only code.

Backend: hpaio

Link(s): http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/hplip_readme.html
Comment: This backend is a replacement for the hpoj backend. It's package name is hplip. See the website for the latest releases.

Backend: hpoj ((unmaintained))

Link(s): http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/
Comment: HPOJ is not maintained anymore. It's recommended to use the hpaio (hplip) backend instead of HPOJ.

Backend: hp_rts88xx

Link(s): http://hp44x0backend.sourceforge.net
Comment: This backend is not included in the sane-backends distribution at the request of its author. There is a lot of different hardware worldwide on the market and the backend can't cover all this different versions.

Backend: lhii

Link(s): http://www.sane-project.org/backends/lhii/lhii-v0.2.tgz
Comment: This backend is for old handscanners with proprietary adapter cards. You also need a kernel driver. You may find such drivers at that page: http://www.willamowius.de/scanner.html .

Backend: mustek_a3p1

Link(s): http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/mustek_a3p1-backend/
Comment: Only Mustek P 3600 A3 Pro is supported at the moment

Backend: primascan

Link(s): http://www.geocities.com/trsh0101/index.html
Comment: SANE backend and stand-alone program

Backend: primax

Link(s): http://px-backend.sourceforge.net
Comment: This backend is not included because it depends on the code of the primax command line program. Therefore the author wants to keep it in the primax CVS tree.

Backend: samsung

Link(s): http://product.samsung.com/cgi-bin/nabc/support/b2c_support_product_results.jsp
Comment: External binary-only backend for Linux i386 (and x86_64?). See the website for the latest release.

Backend: scanwit

Link(s): ftp://ftp.mccme.ru/users/ushakov/scanwit
Comment: The backend is not included because it lacks code for safe detection of the scanner and documentation.

Backend: viceo (0.6)

Link(s): mailto:viceo@stevencherie.net, http://viceo.orcon.net.nz/
Comment: Supports E3 and E4 family USB scanners from Genius, Primax, IBM. The backend is not included because the license situation is unclear. Also it only works on Linux and needs a a patch for the kernel scanner driver which isn't available on 2.6.

Still Cameras

Backends: (none)

Video Cameras

Backends: (none)

APIs

Backends: v4l2

Backend: v4l2

Link(s): http://video.inodes.org/sane-v4l2/
Comment: The status of this backend is unknown. It hasn't been updated for years. The v4l2 API is now in Linux 2.5 but it's not clear if the v4l2 backend is compatible to that API.
Description: Interface to Video For Linux 2 API

Meta Backends

Backends: (none)

Legend:

Backend:

Name of the backend, in parentheses if available: Version of backend/driver; newer versions may be available from their home sites.
NEW! means brand-new to the current release of SANE.
UNMAINTAINED means that nobody maintains that backend. Expect no new features or newly supported devices. You are welcome to take over maintainership.

Link(s):

Link(s) to more extensive and detailed information, if it exists, or the email address of the author or maintainer.

Manual Page:

A link to the man-page online, if it exists.

Comment:

More information about the backend or model, e.g. the level of support and possible problems.

Manufacturer:

Manufacturer, vendor or brand name of the device.

Model:

Name of the the device.

Interface:

How the device is connected to the computer.

USB id:

The USB vendor and product ids as printed by sane-find-scanner -q (only applicable for USB devices).

Status:

Indicates how many of the features the device provides are supported by SANE.

• unsupported means the device is not supported at least by this backend. It may be supported by other backends, however.
• untested means the device may be supported but couldn't be tested. Be very careful and report success/failure.
• minimal means that the device is detected and scans at least in one mode. But the quality is bad or important features won't work.
• basic means it works at least in the most important modes but quality is not perfect.
• good means the device is usable for day-to-day work. Some rather exotic features may be missing.
• complete means the backends supports everything the device can do.

Description:

The scope of application of the backend.