# Re: TWAIN not so broken after all?

Arun Tanksali (tanksali@integramicro.com)
Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:05:10 +0530

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>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.

That is one big IF. There are many scanners which do support turning off the
UI. But those that do not support this outnumber the decent ones. Some TWAIN
sources crash and bring down the machine if used without the UI enabled.

If you were on the TWAIN list , you would find that almost every week
somebody pipes up with this question of how to turn off the UI, only to be
disappointed.

- Arun Tanksali

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