Re: Any TWAIN support someday?

becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 17:31:08 +0100 (MET)

> 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.

Could someone please add this to the FAQ (or is it there already ?) ... !

TWAIN has nothing to do with any kind of standard for hardware access.

TWAIN is basically an API allowing a program to ask the scanner driver
to acquire an image. All the rest is left to the driver. Including making
up the API. And as DOS/Win/MAC TWAIN drivers cannot be run on Unix normally,
the mark "TWAIN-compliant" is no use at all for us.

The naming of SANE is not purely coincidential ... ;-).

CU,Andy

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Andreas Beck              |  Email :  <becka@sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>



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