# The graphics/sane-backends port

## sane-backends-1.0.22p8 – API for accessing scanners, backends

## Description

    SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application
    programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any
    raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner,
    video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.). The SANE API is public
    domain and its discussion and development is open to everybody. The
    current source code is written for UNIX (including GNU/Linux) and is
    available under the GNU General Public License (the SANE API is
    available to proprietary applications and backends as well, however).
    More details about the license can be found on our license page. Ports
    to MacOS X, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows are either already done or in
    progress.

    SANE is a universal scanner interface. The value of such a universal
    interface is that it allows writing just one driver per image
    acquisition device rather than one driver for each device and
    application. So, if you have three applications and four devices,
    traditionally you'd have had to write 12 different programs. With SANE,
    this number is reduced to seven: the three applications plus the four
    drivers. Of course, the savings get even bigger as more and more drivers
    and/or applications are added.

    SANE-BACKENDS comes complete with documentation, several backends,
    scanimage command line frontend, and networking support. For
    other/graphical frontends take a look at sane-frontends and XSane.

    Available FLAVOR:
    	snmp - build with net-snmp support (i.e. SNMP scanners support)

WWW: http://www.sane-project.org/

Categories:
  graphics

## Library dependencies

- devel/libusb-compat
- graphics/tiff

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=1.21:textproc/groff
- devel/gmake

## Run dependencies