[sane-devel] pthreads for MacOSX (instead of child process)

Hubert Figuiere hfiguiere@teaser.fr
Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:07:31 +0100


On dimanche, f=E9v 9, 2003, at 16:37 Europe/Paris, Beat Birkhofer wrote:

> Apple has a 'Image Capture Architecture' (ICA)=20
> <http://developer.apple.com/sdk/#ImageCapture> for digital cameras and=20=

> scanners. I haven't looked at it in detail but I think sane could be=20=

> used as scanner module to make scanners available to the OS and thus=20=

> all client apps that use the ICA (no need for X11 apps).
>
> Scanner support for OSX is still not really good (few vendors, often=20=

> crappy software).
>

They also sport a TWAIN interface (for scanners). That means that we=20
could possibly use a TWAIM work that has already been done for other=20
interfaces.


Hub
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