Re: Windows port

Andreas Dilger (adilger@enel.ucalgary.ca)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 15:06:21 -0600 (MDT)

Ian writes:
> Rather than port SANE to Windows, couldn't someone write a TWAIN driver
> for Windows that talks to saned? This would allow people to use their free
> Windows OCR s/w etc that comes with the scanner, provided they have a
> Windows box on their network. It would also enable their Windows machines
> to scan from any scanner on their network.

This is mostly what I was interested in. Since the scanners always come
with their own TWAIN software, SANE wouldn't be as useful for Windows.
However, since I can't currently attach my SCSI scanner to my laptop, the
saned backend with a TWAIN frontend would be ideal. The great thing with
SANE is that once saned + TWAIN front-end is available for Windows, any
SANE backend on Unix is now usable...

Cheers, Andreas

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