TWAIN
TWAIN is a standard interface for scanning equipment that was developed in 1992 by the TWAIN consortium that consisted of representatives from Aldus, Caere, Eastman, Kodak, Hewlett Packard and Logitech. The TWAIN standard enables multiple computer software programs. Today, most computer scanners include a TWAIN, TWAIN32 or compliant driver that enables the scanner to work with most computer programs automatically after they have been installed.
Sometimes
this term is incorrectly referred to as Technology Without An Interesting Name, TWAIN is from Kipling's poem "The Ballard of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall meet...".
- Computer scanner help and support.
- Computer scanner drivers
- Complete information about TWAIN can be found at http://www.twain.org.
Also see: ISIS, Scanner definitions