I used to digitize old family photographs with my mom about five years ago. We used a Canon LiDE 300 on Windows 10.
Since then, I have matured. 🤣
I switched to Linux about two years ago - Artix btw - and now I want to revive this cozy tradition of digitizing photos. I’m looking at the Canon LiDE 400, but that’s partially irrelevant. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SANE says it should be supported.
Question: do you have any experience with the frontends? Do you know if there is one that - like the proprietary Canon software for Windows - can pick out individual photographs from the scan surface? So that I don’t have to manually crop the file afterwards.
Thanks in advance! 😊
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Scanservejs.
Here instructions as per my wiki https://wiki.gardiol.org/7-services/scanservjs
It’s a web interface. A bit atypical.
Thanks! 😀 I’ll check it out immediately!
simple-scan aka Document scanner
Give “'xsane” a look… featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). Simple, easy to use.
I use it often for work similar to yours
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XSane
- Supports several scanning protocols; handles multiple image acquisition devices efficiently: scanners, cameras, video devices
- Allows detailed prescan adjustments w/preview – for example: select area (“…pick out individual photographs from the scan surface”) , contrast, brightness, dpi, to name a few
- Settings for professional scanning; available but not necessary to ‘fiddle’ with: https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/computing/printing/xsane
Thanks! I just set up my desktop environment so I’ll try it sometime this week 😊
