# TWAIN not so broken after all?

Nick Lamb (njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Sun, 21 Mar 1999 01:05:23 +0000 (GMT)

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In browsing through some of the TWAIN 1.6 documentation on the web, I noticed
that there is a "ShowUI" feature which may optionally be supported by a
TWAIN Source (ugly Windows scanner program to you or me). If supported, this
feature allows a TWAIN application program to turn off the Windows UI and
directly manipulate most/all of the TWAIN Source features.

It seems to me that IF a significant number of consumer scanners out there
do have this feature enabled then one could potentially develop a Win32
SANE backend which simply turned off the ugly TWAIN Source UI and provided
as many features as it advertises (which may unfortunately not be all the
features of the scanner) to the SANE system.

The advantage to the end-user is that they get network transparent access
to the scanner, and no longer need use the ugly TWAIN UI.

Can anyone with TWAIN know-how (I know there are one or two people on this
list who have some) comment on the availability of ShowUI in consumer land?

Nick.

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