[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion
Rene Rebe
rene at exactcode.de
Fri Mar 28 18:21:00 UTC 2008
Hi,
On 28.03.2008, at 19:13, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> Rene Rebe <rene at exactcode.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Sounds a bit Data Source Manager like-ish (in TWAIN terms), definetly
>> and idea for desktops.
>
> Yes. From what you told about TWAIN the other day, I think I like the
> architecture. I don't know enough about TWAIN to tell for sure,
> though.
>
>
> Oh, I forgot to add: we get real locking/device management that way,
> too.
The TWAIN standard is open, and here is the link:
http://twain.org/docs/TWAIN19.pdf
Actually the capabilities are even quite similar.
In retrospect I wonder why TWAIN was not used when SANE was
started for the open / free OSs. Maybe just to do it differently than
on Windows and the Mac.
Yours,
--
René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
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