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@dewski dewski released this 10 Oct 02:51
v0.2.0
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FastScan now installs on any Mac with Apple silicon: put a stack in the feeder, press Scan, and it's filed where it belongs.

What's new

  • No Homebrew. FastScan carries its own copy of SANE, the driver that talks to the scanner, so there is nothing else to install.
  • Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. macOS opens FastScan like any other downloaded app, without a trip to Privacy & Security.
  • FastScan › Acknowledgements lists the open-source software inside the app and its licenses.

What it does

  • Scans papers and photos from an Epson FastFoto FF-680W over Wi-Fi, both sides, and drops blank backs.
  • Turns papers into searchable PDFs, about 1 MB per page or less.
  • Suggests a name and folder for each document with Apple's on-device model, following the patterns already in your filing cabinet. Nothing is filed until you press File It, and Undo puts it back.
  • Sends photos to Apple Photos, with writing on the back as the caption.
  • Lets you switch a document between color and grayscale, or keep only the fronts, without scanning again.

Requirements

  • A Mac with Apple silicon running macOS 26 or later. Filing suggestions use Apple Intelligence when it is turned on, and a built-in heuristic when it is not.
  • An Epson FastFoto FF-680W on the same Wi-Fi network. It is the only scanner tested so far.

If you installed sane-backends with Homebrew for FastScan 0.1.0, FastScan no longer uses it. You can keep it or remove it with brew uninstall sane-backends.

Install

  1. Download FastScan-0.2.0.zip below and unzip it.
  2. Move FastScan.app to your Applications folder, and open it.
  3. When macOS asks whether FastScan may find devices on your local network, choose Allow.
  4. Open Settings (⌘,) and choose your filing cabinet folder. It starts as ~/Documents/Scans.

To check the download, compare it with FastScan-0.2.0.zip.sha256:

shasum -a 256 -c FastScan-0.2.0.zip.sha256

Source for the bundled SANE

FastScan includes SANE (sane-backends 1.4.0), which is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2. sane-backends-1.4.0.tar.gz below is its exact source, and build-sane is the script that built it.

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