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! 😊

  • spacetff@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    18 hours ago

    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
  • Ooops@feddit.org
    16·
    3 days ago

    Gnome normally brings their simple GNOME Document Scanner (simple-scan), KDE comes with skanlite or skanpage. xsane is an older GTK-based frontend, there’s also the GIMP plugin using xsane. NAPS2 is an independent fully-featured frontend. And a lot of dedicated OCR software (including stuff like OCRFeederor Paperwork) also supports sane.

    PS: even the basic tools support previews, then letting you select only the specific area you want to scan.

    • Cysio@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      2 days ago

      Wait, NAPS2 supports Linux too? It’s my go to thing I install on people’s computers when they want to scan things