Re: Twain vs. SANE?

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 16:17:48 PDT

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    Gary Bickford wrote:
    >
    > OK, I've got a Twain-compatible printer/copier/scanner - I checked a
    > while back and there's no SANE support for it (Xerox W950). Is there
    > any tool that is just TWAIN compatible I can use instead of SANE?

    Hi Gary,

    no device is TWAIN compatible. TWAIN defines an interface between the
    userinterface of a (scanner)-driver and the application that wants to use the scanner.
    It has nothing to do with the level driver<->hardware.

    Bye
    Oliver 

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