Lots of people have complained that XSane is too complicated for many users, but little progress has been made towards creating a user-friendly and stable replacement for the SANE GUI. Until now.

Linux: The default image scanning app on most Linux desktops, XSane, has many, many buttons and sliders. When all you want to do is make a PDF from text, or scan a picture, Simple Scan is there for ...

The software drivers needed to operate a wide variety of document scanning devices are preinstalled on distributions of Ubuntu Linux. In additon, Ubuntu includes a basic scanning application that lets ...

One key area of frustration for newcomers to the Linux OS is using document scanners. Most hardware makers do not provide Linux drivers on discs that accompany their scanner models. So Linux users ...

One of my favorite kinds of apps is simple utilities that solve a common problem and are straightforward to use. That’s exactly what Greg Pierce has created with Simple Scan, a scanning app for the ...

We think the Canon CanoScan LiDE 300 is the best for high-resolution scans of delicate or thick items, and the Epson ...