Re: TWAIN on Unix ?

From: Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 09:32:54 PST

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pere@hungry.com said:
> I guess if we write the TWAIN driver using a cross-platform GUI
> library, we could use the same driver on Unix and Windows - making the
> SANE devices available on Windows as well. :-)

SANE would need to support a whole bunch of new image formats, for that
to work well. TWAIN supports things like compressed image data from the
scanner, and boy do I wish SANE did, too.

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