I recently purchased a Fujitsu Fi-6130 scanner for just over 500 RMB, which is a relatively affordable sheet-fed scanner. I wanted to use it on macOS, but I found that for older, low-end scanners like this, the official drivers are no longer provided. The only options are to use SANE or VueScan.

SANE can be installed via Homebrew, but since I wanted to compile a version that is easy to distribute, I decided to recompile it myself. Here are the steps I took.

  1. Install Homebrew.

  2. Install the necessary dependencies.

    brew install autoconf automake libtool gettext git pkg-config libusb libjpeg

  3. Download the source code package from the SANE official website.

  4. Run the following commands to compile:

    ./autogen.sh  
./configure --prefix=/usr/local \  
            CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -I/opt/homebrew/include" \  
            LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/homebrew/lib"  
make  
make install

  5. If you need to distribute it to an environment without Homebrew, you can use otool and install_name_tool to modify the paths.

The macOS version of ImageTrans has already integrated SANE, allowing you to directly use scanners like the old fi-6130 for scanning.