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<h1>Re: Starting a discussion about SANE and TWAIN...</h1>
<b>Oliver Rauch</b> (<a href="mailto:oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE"><i>oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE</i></a>)<br>
<i>Fri, 13 Aug 1999 23:30:44 +0200</i>
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Andreas Dilger wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; The real question, as I see it, is why have TWAIN on Unix systems in the</i><br>
<i>&gt; first place?  I don't think there are any TWAIN apps on Unix at the current</i><br>
<i>&gt; time, and if developers are porting over PC/Mac apps to Unix, they can</i><br>
<i>&gt; always use SANE to interface with image acquisition tools.  It's actually</i><br>
<i>&gt; counter-productive to expect any kind of TWAIN support in the Unix world,</i><br>
<i>&gt; since all there is right now is SANE, so they should use what's available.</i><br>
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<i>&gt; To be honest, it shouldn't be too hard to develop another TWAIN GUI</i><br>
<i>&gt; front-end on the Windows side that talks to a SANE back-end, since one</i><br>
<i>&gt; person has already done so (it didn't work 100%, but then again it only</i><br>
<i>&gt; took a week).  This would allow remote scanning right away, and if scanner</i><br>
<i>&gt; manufacturers want a cross-platform standard, SANE would probably win out</i><br>
<i>&gt; over TWAIN.</i><br>
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Hi Andreas,<br>
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where do you see the problem if there is TWAIN and SANE on unix<br>
and may be other OS?<br>
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SANE defines an interface between a scanning frontend and a driver.<br>
TWAIN also defines an interface between an application and the scanning<br>
frontend - compareable to the interface between the GIMP and<br>
xscanimage/xsane.<br>
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I think it is a very good idea to have TWAIN on unix systems. May be<br>
we get programs like Photoshop on unix systems this way.<br>
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TWAIN and SANE do not need to be concurrent standards,<br>
both can benefit from each other!!!<br>
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Bye<br>
Oliver<br>
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