> But is there any reason to keep these devices in uscanner? To my > knowledge, sane is the only tool to access such devices. Is there > other software that need uscanner? > > And more generally, is there any reason to keep uscanner?
According to the manpage, it was written to provide a linux-compatible scanner device. If nowadays' scanning applications are perfectly happy with ugen(4), then I see no point in keeping uscanner(4). Unless I misunderstood things... Miod