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<H1>Re: Twain interface</H1>
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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Nick Lamb (<A HREF="mailto:njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk?Subject=Re:%20Twain%20interface&In-Reply-To=&lt;20010416231254.B9217@ecs.soton.ac.uk&gt;"><EM>njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</EM></A>)<BR>
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:18:59AM -0700, Stephen Williams wrote:
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<EM>&gt; Gosh, it would be nice if someone wrote a twain *front*end for SANE.
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<EM>&gt; We really need to get the scanner manufactures on board to write
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<EM>&gt; data sources for this, though. the TWAIN API is waiting for the scanner
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<EM>&gt; vendors, and the scanner vendors are waiting for TWAIN. And of course
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<EM>&gt; the applications are waiting for the TWAIN API...
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<P>I'm not sure how many applications are waiting for TWAIN (you mean on
<BR>
Unix, right?) -- after all TWAIN will give them a comparatively feeble
<BR>
interface not tailored to their problem. An OCR app and a Photo Album
<BR>
manager don't care about too many of the same things, and SANE lets
<BR>
them each build a UI which is appropriate to their application and
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integrates with it nicely.
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<P>I suppose that TWAIN integration would have simplicity on its side,
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or might do, in theory.
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<P>Neither GNOME nor KDE will take kindly to being told that their apps
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should conjure up a foreign UI to access scanners, not least because
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it goes against basic design sense.
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<P>Your other point (sorry, I deleted it before I wrote this far) is
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very timely because the mist in my crystal ball is starting to clear.
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I will mail you specifically if time frees up enough to write some more
<BR>
concrete stuff for SANE 2.0
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<P>Nick.
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