# Re: Can Anyone help this guy out?

From: volodya@mindspring.com
Date: Sat Jan 20 2001 - 21:47:46 PST

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  Another hard way to do it is take a close look at the twain driver that
  you already have. It might be possible to write some sort of a bridge
  between Windows 2000 and that driver. I.e. turn existing twain driver into
  a library, write a generic WDM driver for windows and then a glue
  application that interfaces all together.

  Having source code is nice, but there is still lots of stuff one can
  do with a binary.

  Vladimir Dergachev

  On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Rick Frank wrote:

  >
  >
  >
  > Greetings TWG;
  >
  > I'm trying to resolve a very serious and expensive problem. My
  > company is Northrop Grumman and we're a government Defense
  > Contractor. Several years ago we purchased for the government,
  > several thousand Logitech Pagescan Color scanners (parallel port
  > version) for a contract we were working. About two years ago
  > Logitech made the business decision to leave the scanner business and
  > henceforth, sold their scanner patent to a company called Storm
  > Technologies. Some time later, Storm Technologies filed for
  > bankruptcy and went out of business -- leaving no support for the
  > scanner.
  >
  > About a year ago the project decided to upgrade the PC platform to
  > Windows 2000. A number of pretest measures were taken to ensure the
  > software application was compatible with the W2000 upgrade. But
  > unfortunately, no one bothered to verify beforehand that the scanner
  > would operate properly. Now, to our misfortune, we find it would
  > not! Apparently, the device driver is no longer compatible.
  >
  > Logitech was (and as far as I know, still is) part of the original
  > TWAIN consortium. Several persons have said to me that it may be
  > possible that there is a TWAIN driver that can be used as a driver
  > for the Logitech Pagescan Color scanner. Is this the case? If not,
  > then is it possible that the specifications for designing a new
  > driver for the scanner for Windows 2000 might be acquired through the
  > TWAIN Working Group? If no to both of these questions, is there any
  > way that I can possibly find a copy of the driver specifications
  > needed to develop a driver for this device. Please not that Logitech
  > has already told me that they no longer support the device and Storm
  > Technologies is now defunct.
  >
  > I appreciate your assistance.
  >
  > "Byron E. Thornton" <thorntonb@earthlink.net>
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