# Re: TWAIN on Unix ?

From: Mentore Siesto (s135989@studenti.ing.unipi.it)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 02:38:00 PST

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  On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Oliver Rauch wrote:

  OR >The problem is that the Windows TWAIN API depends on the Windows API (IPC).
  OR >The TWAIN org wanted to implement the same API for unix what would be
  very bad.
  OR >The problem is that on windows the driver is a part of the
  frontend-process and so all
  OR >events have to be passed through to the backend.
  OR >
  OR >There already is a second TWAIN interface for the apple mac that is not
  compatible to
  OR >the windows TWAIN API.
  OR >
  OR >We suggested to create a unix TWAIN API that is as compatible as possible
  to the WIN TWAIN
  OR >but with some differences that use the special functions of unix systems.
  OR >
  OR >I still would like to add a WIN and a UNIX TWAIN API to xsane but in the near future I do not
  OR >have the time to work on it.
  OR >
  OR >After all: it is not so simple like it looks at first.

  This is true. If you think that there is another TWAIN interface, built
  for OS/2 by two software manufacturers (commercial software), the idea is
  even more complicated.

  Ciao,

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