This is a set of bindings from libsane to node. libsane is a scanner access library used to access scanners on supported systems.

You will need libsane installed. Most Linux distributions have it available by default, or with a package like libsane-dev.

npm install node-sane

If you want to hack on the source code, you can get it from Github. Clone the repo like this:

$ git clone https://github.com/yjwong/node-sane.git

To compile the native code bindings, do this:

$ cd node-sane
$ node-pre-gyp configure build

Assuming it built without errors, you should be able to run the examples and then write your own scanner access programs.

There is currently no documentation for the moment. Feel free to contribute if you have some.

To use this library in your own program, sane.js and sane.node must be in NODE_PATH. npm takes care of this automatically.

var sane = require('node-sane');
sane.init();

MIT License. See the LICENSE file.