For example, skanlite needs to have additional info specified on the command line in order to detect a network scanner properly as it cannot handle mDNS. This is especially true with devices configured via mDNS. Using a frontend does not mean you do not have to apply some tricks.As long as mDNS hostname resolution is set up correctly and the scanner 's address is specified as hostname.local, it should just work.

Reason: skanlite does not need to handle mDNS. Some OCR software can scan images using SANE: gImageReader, gscan2pdf, Linux-Intelligent-Ocr-Solution, OCRFeeder, Paperwork.

XSane - Full-featured GTK-based frontend, looking a bit old but providing extended functionalities.

Skanpage - A simple scanning application designed for multi-page scanning and saving of documents and images.

Skanlite - Simple image scanning application that does nothing more than scan and save images, based on the KSane backend.

Simple Scan - Simplified GUI that is intended to be easier to use and better integrated into the GNOME desktop than XSane.

Many frontends exist for SANE, a non-exhaustive list of which can be found on the SANE project website. See iptables#Allowing multicast traffic to correctly configure your firewall. Note: Some drivers, including sane-airscan, use multicast to search for network scanners.

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