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Introduction

Eikazo -- a GTK and Python based frontend for SANE

features

  • designed to be fast. If a scanner has a document feeder and if if the ADF is enabled, a new scan is started, before the data of a previous scan has been written to a disk file or printed. The processing time for a scan image is typically below one second, so that fast document scanners are well supported.

  • more than one output per scan is possible. You can simultaneously save the scanned image into a file and print it.

  • the image of every scan is displayed in a preview window.

  • plugin mechanisms for device specific features, for scan filters and for output generation. This allows the easy addition of special purpose scan filters or of a database integration.

    At present, the following filters are available:

    • adaptive lineart thresholding, allowing reliable generation of lineart images from documents with varying background color or
    • some filters provided by ImageMagick

    planned:

    • deskewing (in combination with an appropriate device plugin)