Re: Any TWAIN support someday?

Tristan Tarrant (ttarrant@suntlc.etnoteam.it)
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 17:10:44 -0100 (GMT)

On 24 Nov, Norm Peterson wrote:
>
> I was just wondering if there was any ideas if someday in the forseeable
> future TWAIN compliant scanner drivers would be added to the sane package.

There is no such thing as a TWAIN scanner. TWAIN is the roughly
the interface between the application (e.g. Photoshop) and the
manufacturer-provided drivers. The driver talks to the scanner in its
own way, and then, via TWAIN, sends the acquired data to the
application. A TWAIN backend incorporates the concept of both the SANE
backend and frontend (i.e. it implements the user interface as well as
the low-level connection to the hardware). The only thing that SANE can
do is provide a TWAIN driver for Windows for scanning using the SANE
network protocol.

Tristan

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Tristan Tarrant                                         ttarrant@etnoteam.it


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