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 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.