From: Mark McLaughlin
Hi...
Last summer I initiated a discussion about expanding TWAIN's portability
to include UNIX, and more specifically Linux. The discussion included a
number of SANE developers, and continued (with some gaps) over the
course of several months. It finally faded away, mostly due to my own
fault, because of work committments and other TWAIN activities.
I have, however, continued to consider the issue, and recently the TWAIN
Working Group decided that the discussion needed to be restarted.
We are still receiving queries from our user community about the notion
of TWAIN on UNIX. And, back in April, we made it the central question to
people in our booth at the AIIM show in New York City. People responded
in sufficient numbers to further encourage us to continue.
It was during that time that I began the creation of a High Level Design
Document outlining the goals and rough implementation strategies for
expanding TWAIN's portability to include UNIX. Now, as in the earlier
discussion, SANE plays an important part in this work. The document
reflects ideas discussed with a number of people, in particular Oliver
Rauch and Andreas Beck. It can be found at the following URL...
http://www.twain.org/docs/twain_20_unix.htm
I am not sure how feasible this next notion will be, but here goes: One of
the
members of the TWAIN Working Group (Jon Harju) has learned that there
will be a Linux Symposium in Ottawa, Canada on July 20th. Jon and I would
very much like to meet with any representatives of SANE who would be
able to meet us there. If for some reason this isn't doable, we would be
interested in discussing other opportunities for face to face meetings.
Mark McLaughlin
Chair, Technical Sub-committee
TWAIN Working Group
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