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

[Hubert Figuiere]

On dimanche, fév 9, 2003, at 16:37 Europe/Paris, Beat Birkhofer wrote:

> Apple has a 'Image Capture Architecture' (ICA) 
> <http://developer.apple.com/sdk/#ImageCapture> for digital cameras and 
> scanners. I haven't looked at it in detail but I think sane could be 
> used as scanner module to make scanners available to the OS and thus 
> all client apps that use the ICA (no need for X11 apps).
>
> Scanner support for OSX is still not really good (few vendors, often 
> crappy software).
>

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


Hub
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