The search engine knows if your scanner is supported and if yes, by which backend. If it's not supported, it may at least point to documentation or test programs. The search engine contains information from the latest stable SANE release, the development ("CVS") version of SANE and from external backends. The database is updated once per day.
The lists of devices contain information not only about scanners and other devices but also about APIs (e.g. Video for Linux) and meta backends (e.g. dll). If you want to check if your scanner is supported, look at the lists that are ordered by manufacturer. If you are interested in the devices a backends supports, have a look at the lists ordered by backend.
These lists provide information about the devices that are supported by the latest stable release of SANE. If your device isn't mention in these lists or tagged as "unsupported", also have a look at the lists for the development version and the external backends below.
The SANE homepage was moved recently, so links in our stable lists may fail. This will be fixed when sane-backends 1.0.13 will be available. Use the CVS lists instead if you need the links.
These lists provide information about the devices that are supported by the unstable development version of SANE. The lists are updated automatically from CVS.
This list provides information about the devices that are supported by external backends, i.e. backends that are not yet included in the SANE package. They also contain the reason why these backends are not yet included. Go to the backend's homepage for download instructions and more information.
If you have an older release of SANE and want to check if your scanner is supported by that version, these lists are for you.
SANE version: 1.0.15, 1.0.14, 1.0.13, 1.0.12, 1.0.11 and 1.0.10, 1.0.9, 1.0.8, 1.0.7, 1.0.6, 1.0.5, 1.0.4, 1.0.3, 1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.00.
Jonathan Buzzard maintains lists of parallel port and USB scanners. On these pages you will find information about how well these scanners are supported by SANE or other programs under Linux. Please check the date, the pages may be rather outdated.
$Date: 2005/08/07 11:07:16 $ $Author: hmg-guest $