SaneKit

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ABOUT

SaneKit is a small framework for interfacing libsane (http://www.sane-project.org/) in Objective-C code.

I started this project because the only way to get our scanner to work on OS X was libsane. Additionally I only found Snac (https://github.com/fredrikw/Snac) to be the only 'open-source' scanner application for OS X using libsane. However Snac didn't fit my needs because it called the scanimage commandline tool from libsane but didn't access libsane natively.

This is how SaneKit was born.

FEATURES

SaneKit allows you to search for attached scan devices and then use those to perform scans. All options supported by the devices are accessible through the API and can be set before scanning.

REQUIREMENTS

Computer running Mac OS X >= 10.5 is needed. Xcode and libsane must be installed to build SaneKit from source (see INSTALLATION).

LICENSE

SaneKit is licensed under the FreeBSD license.

DOWNLOADING

SaneKit can be downloaded from its GitHub page:

https://github.com/mkroehnert/SaneKit/downloads

INSTALLATION

a) First install libsane by issuing the following command in a terminal:

 brew install sane-backends

b) Download the source from GitHub and compile it with the provided Xcode project.

PROBLEMS

Feature requests and bugs can be reported through on the Github issue page:

http://github.com/mkroehnert/SaneKit/issues

The applications menu entry 'Report Bug ...' will also take you there.