> > I received many helpful replies, each of which recommend a tool other > than sane. Is the point that sane can't use the document feeder or just > that you prefer (or simply have used) other tools. > > $ qfile /usr/bin/scanimage media-gfx/sane-backends (/usr/bin/scanimage)
And xsane depends on sane-backends, so you already have it. In my case i haven't investigated other tools.