Re: UMAX Scanner support
Evan Jeffrey (ejeffrey@utrek.ml.org)
Fri, 17 Oct 1997 02:12:18 -0500
>Having just acquired a very cheap (CA$65) handscanner from UMAX that works
>splendid under Win311, I would like to ask this forum about scanner support
>in general with regard to the TWAIN standard, and also about possible support
>for this scanner in particular.
>
>The main stream kernel doesn't seem to bother about scanners and most scanners
>I have ever heard of are SCSI devices. However, the scanner I now bought, a
>UMAX ScanThis!, has its own proprietary AT-Bus board and it uses a protocol
>called TWAIN to transmit the data from the scanner to an application. At least
>the documentation that followed it calls it a standard, but perhaps UMAX is the
>only company using it :-)
Don't shoot me (or sue me) if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure, TWAIN is a
software standard, ie, the TWAIN driver uses hardware specific commands to
control / access the scanner and provides a uniform software API for
accessing this data.
Evan
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