SANE

If you're looking for a reliable and easy-to-use software to manage your scanner hardware, then SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) might just be the right choice for you. SANE provides a standardized application programming interface (API) that allows you to access different kinds of raster image scanners, including flatbed and handheld scanners, video and still cameras, and framegrabbers, among others.

The best thing about SANE is that it follows a public domain standard, which means that its discussion and development are open to everyone. This makes it an ideal choice for people looking for a customizable and user-friendly scanning software. Moreover, the source code is written for UNIX and available under GPL, and users are welcome to use it for personal, commercial, or any other purposes.

SANE comes with a range of useful features, including libraries, net support, and scanimage. Additionally, you can find the X frontends like xscanimage and xcam, in the sane-frontends package, which makes it easy to interact with the software. All in all, if you're tired of complicated scanning software that doesn't work well with your hardware, then you should definitely give SANE a try. It will not disappoint you!