# Restarting a discussion about TWAIN and SANE...

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Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 09:22:29 PDT

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  From: Mark McLaughlin

  Hi...

  Last summer I initiated a discussion about expanding TWAIN's portability
  to include UNIX, and more specifically Linux. The discussion included a
  number of SANE developers, and continued (with some gaps) over the
  course of several months. It finally faded away, mostly due to my own
  fault, because of work committments and other TWAIN activities.

  I have, however, continued to consider the issue, and recently the TWAIN
  Working Group decided that the discussion needed to be restarted.

  We are still receiving queries from our user community about the notion
  of TWAIN on UNIX. And, back in April, we made it the central question to
  people in our booth at the AIIM show in New York City. People responded
  in sufficient numbers to further encourage us to continue.

  It was during that time that I began the creation of a High Level Design
  Document outlining the goals and rough implementation strategies for
  expanding TWAIN's portability to include UNIX. Now, as in the earlier
  discussion, SANE plays an important part in this work. The document
  reflects ideas discussed with a number of people, in particular Oliver
  Rauch and Andreas Beck. It can be found at the following URL...

  http://www.twain.org/docs/twain_20_unix.htm

  I am not sure how feasible this next notion will be, but here goes: One of
  the
  members of the TWAIN Working Group (Jon Harju) has learned that there
  will be a Linux Symposium in Ottawa, Canada on July 20th. Jon and I would
  very much like to meet with any representatives of SANE who would be
  able to meet us there. If for some reason this isn't doable, we would be
  interested in discussing other opportunities for face to face meetings.

  Mark McLaughlin
  Chair, Technical Sub-committee
  TWAIN Working Group

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