WiaSane

The WiaSane project provides a Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) Driver which enables image acquisition from scanner devices through the Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) network protocol.

This WIA driver implements a SANE frontend on top of the SANE network protocol. It is referred to as Scanner Access Now Easy - WIA Driver.

In order to access those scanner devices either the scanner itself or a SANE daemon needs to provide a SANE network frontend to be used.

Downloads can either be found on the corresponding wiki page or on the release overview.

Usage

In order to use the SANE device created by this driver you will need to make use of a WIA-compatible scanning application. Examples include:

• Windows Fax and Scan
• Not Another PDF Scanner 2

Requirements

This software is currently build and tested against Windows 7. The required Windows API functions are available since Windows Vista, which means that it could work on Windows Vista and newer versions.

Features

• Create a Windows scanner device by connecting to a SANE device
• Support for color, grayscale and lineart/threshold scan modes
• Support for preview and final scan types
• Support for contrast and brightness settings
• Support for single-sided scanning from a flatbed
• Support for automatic document feeder and duplex mode
• Support for username- and password-based authentication
• Integrated property page for device modification
• Integrated wizard during driver/device installation

Development

Please find this information on the GitHub project.

License

Copyright (c) 2012 - 2014, Marc Hoersken, info@marc-hoersken.de

This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which you should have received as part of this software distribution.

All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.