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Subject:Re: Does anyone know what TWAIN means? From:Bev Parks <bparks -at- HUACHUCA-EMH1 -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Sat, 1 Apr 1995 09:13:47 MST
TWAIN is an industry-standard protocol for exchanging
information between applications and devices such as scanners.
If you are using a TWAIN-compliant application, you can scan
images by accessing your scanner directly from that application.
(The preceding definition courtesy of my HP DeskScan II User's Guide)
The TWAIN-compliant application will usually have a menu option
from the File menu called "Acquire Image" or something like
that. It's a very nice feature; I've used it several times.
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