Index of XSane documentation

• Viewer mode
• Save mode
• Copy mode
• Multipage mode
• Fax mode
• E-mail mode
• Gimp plugin

• Gamma correction
• Brightness
• Contrast
• Threshold
• RGB default
• Negative
• Autoenhancement
• Default
• Restore
• Store
• Histogram window
• Pipette functions

• Pipette white
• Pipette gray
• Pipette black
• Unzoom
• Zoom out
• Zoom in
• Undo zoom
• Autoselect scanarea
• Autoraise scanarea
• Select visible area
• Delete preview cache
• Preset area
• Rotation
• Aspect ratio
• RGB values
• Select scanarea
• Move scanarea

• Empty batch list
• Open batch list
• Save batch list
• Add area to list
• Remove selection
• Rename selection
• Rotate image
• Mirror image

• Copy setup
• Display setup
• Enhancement setup
• Fax setup
• Filetype setup
• E-mail setup
• Saving setup
• Color management setup

What is XSane?

XSane is a graphical scanning frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). It uses the SANE-library to talk to scanners. This means that XSane does not support any scanners itself. Take a look at the SANE-backends homepage to find out which scanners are supported by SANE.

XSane is designed for acquiring images with scanners (there are other devices like cameras and videodevices supported by SANE and you will see that xsane may support some basic functions of those devices, but XSane is not designed for that purpose).

XSane can do different things with the acquired images:

• display image in a viewer
• save image to a file
• do a photocopy
• create a multipage document
• create a fax
• create an e-mail

XSane can also be started from the GIMP as Gimp plugin.

Setup:

Before you start scanning please go through all setup pages. XSane may not work correct or you may not be able to take full advantage of all functions if you do not configure XSane correctly.

• Copy setup
• Display setup
• Enhancement setup
• Fax setup
• Image setup
• Mail setup
• Saving setup
• Color management setup

Homepage of XSane:

• www.xsane.org
• You can download XSane as sourcecode and a binary version for Win32
• I do not create any unix binaries in the moment, but there are binaries created by other persons

A personal plea:

Most problems that occur while working with xsane are problems with the configuration of the backend (scanner driver) or the operating system. I do not have the knowledge and I do not have the time to answer all these questions. When you have problems with your scanner (e.g. the scanner is not recogniced, the scanner does not do what you expect, etc.) then please contact the SANE-devel mailing list or the author of the backend that supports your scanner unless you have a good reason to expect that it is a problem of the graphical frontend (XSane) and not a problem of the sane-backend.

Author of XSane:

Oliver Rauch