



		Welcome to the Gnome Scan project.
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	http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-scan/index


The project aim to build an infrastructure allowing developers to
easily build consistent and easy-to-use scan features in their software.

The project is not a standalone application but a library to be used
in applications.

What are the feature implemented/planned ?
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	* HIG scan dialog very consistent with Gtk+ print dialog.

	* Dynamic device selection.

	* Fulfeatured scan preview.

	* Easy mass acquisition.

	* Per application preference saving.

	* Scan from scanner using SANE (http://www.sane-project.org/).

	* Scan from images and PDF.

	* Integration in Gnome application (Gimp, Abiword, Evolution,
          Inkscape, …)


How can i use it ?
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Gnome Scan provide a library for use by applications (e.g. using
plugins) as well as a tiny standalone application, called flegita,
which allow to simply save scan to file.


How to help ?
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Reporting bugs is very helpful. There is too kind of bugs : interface
bugs, and scanner handling bug.

Due to the large variety of scanners, building a scan interface is
quite hard. Gnome Scan might fail using properly your scanner. This is
a bug. By default, Gnome Scan dump device specification. Run flegita
in a terminal and redirect output in a file.

user@host:~$ flegita > debug.log

Reproduce the bug, close flegita (if it didn't crash ;-) ) and attach
debug.log to the bug report. This will highly help developers to
diagnostic problems.


How to contribute ?
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Reading the TODO is always a good idea. Patches are very welcome as
well as translations.

Gnome Scan depends on various projects such as SANE
(http://www.sane-project.org/), Gegl (http://www.gegl.org/), OCRopus
(http://www.ocropus.org/). Contributing to such project will
indirectly improve Gnome Scan.
