# Re: sane-devel: Re: Win32 TWAIN DLL to interface with SANE

Matto Marjanovic (maddog@mir.com)
Mon, 7 Dec 1998 03:19:05 -0500 (EST)

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>> Now that's interesting... Though TWAIN isn't SANE, we can make them
>> compatible... Thus allowing my Epson GT 300 to work under OS/2!!!
>
>does all this mean that SANE 1.00 doesn't support twain flatbed scanners
>atm ?

No, no, no... as far as supported hardware goes, SANE has absolutely
nothing to do with TWAIN. "It's got a TWAIN driver" means nothing;
any driver for Windows or MacOS is going to be a TWAIN driver.

Remember.... a TWAIN driver is both frontend and backend rolled into
one. It's essentially a plug-in. Imagine if there were a different
"xscanimage" (which operates as a Gimp plug-in) for each brand of
scanner. That's TWAIN.

What is being written (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is a TWAIN
driver-frontend-plug-in-thing which speaks the SANE Network Protocol,
and thus will allow a Windows box to remotely access a scanner on a
(Un*x) machine running 'saned'.

-matt m.

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