# Re: SANE/TWAIN

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@azstarnet.com)
Tue, 27 May 1997 08:29:23 -0700

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>>>>> On Tue, 27 May 1997 08:22:24 -0700, "Todd J. Davis" <tjdavis@plexiform.net> said:

Todd> Has anyone every though of / working on a SANE-TWAIN bridge?
Todd> Something which would allow a Twain-compliant program under
Todd> Windoze to receive from a SANE scanner on the network? Might
Todd> be useful in a cross-platform environment, and give some
Todd> creditability to the SANE project (which is great BTW).

Yes, this question comes up periodically. The short answer: TWAIN
essentially depends on a graphical user interface, which makes it
difficult/impossible to run below the SANE api (which separates the
user-interface from the device controls). If interested in the TWAIN
details, see http://www.twain.org/.

What would be possible is to implement a TWAIN-SANE bridge, but I
don't think that's very interesting.

Maybe it's time to start a FAQ for SANE. Any takers?

--david

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