Re: Star Office and scanner

Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:11:35 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:

> Quite possible. But very confusing. How is a Linux user supposed to
> know what TWAIN is?? ;-))

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TWAIN

TWAIN represents a standard software protocol and application programming
interface (API) for the communication between devices, that can process
digital picture's data, such as scanners, digitale cameras and software.
TWAIN stands for "technolgy without an important name". Most scanners are
provided with the respective TWAIN drivers thus enabling the communication
with it.

Presently, the TWAIN protocol is only supported in the Windows versions.
On UNIX platforms, StarOffice is supporting the SANE standard, see
http://www.mostang.com/sane/.
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Alex

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