Reason: skanlite does not need to handle mDNS. Some OCR software can scan images using SANE: gImageReader, gscan2pdf, Linux-Intelligent-Ocr-Solution, OCRFeeder, Paperwork. XSane - Full-featured GTK-based frontend, looking a bit old but providing extended functionalities.Skanpage - A simple scanning application designed for multi-page scanning and saving of documents and images.Skanlite - Simple image scanning application that does nothing more than scan and save images, based on the KSane backend.Simple Scan - Simplified GUI that is intended to be easier to use and better integrated into the GNOME desktop than XSane.Many frontends exist for SANE, a non-exhaustive list of which can be found on the SANE project website. See iptables#Allowing multicast traffic to correctly configure your firewall. Note: Some drivers, including sane-airscan, use multicast to search for network scanners.