# Re: Star Office and scanner

Rob Fargher (fargher@POBoxes.com)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:33:56 +0000

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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, you wrote:

>Do we know for certain that StarOffice uses SANE? I tried this
>quickly on my friends laptop but StarOffice failed with "No TWAIN
>datasource found" or some such. No scanner was actually attached to
>the laptop so I'm not surprised that it didn't work, but the "TWAIN"
>part did surprise me.

David,

I don't know that StarOffice is using Sane. I leapt to that
conclusion, I'm afraid. However, if it makes any difference, the
scanning frontend identifies my scanner as "umax:/dev/scanner"
just as xsane does. Is this format generic or unique to SANE?

As for the TWAIN, StarOffice was ported to Linux. I think that
OS/2 might have been the native platform (not that OS/2 has much
in the way of TWAIN). I was thinking that TWAIN may simply be
StarOffices internal default reference to the scanner driver,
irrespective of platform.

Cheers,
Rob

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