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In <mvt94.19202$W2.153951@iad-read.news.verio.net> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> In comp.sys.next.hardware BillLeeX@cleaf.com wrote:
> > "TWAIN"? Could you give a pointer where I could find more on this? I've
> > browsed in the PEAK archive a bit and haven't been able to find anything
> > (Not saying it's not there, just that I haven't stumbled acrosss it if it
> > is.)
> 
> www.twain.org/docs/whitepaper.htm
> 
> Of course, this nifty stuff isn't much good if you don't have the 
correspnding
> software.  I took a quick look at the only scanning software for NS I have 
a
> pointer to handy (ScanOmatic, http://www.ipc.de/IPC/software/index.html).  
And
> this doesn't mention TWAIN at all, which isn't a good sign.
> 
> Anybody know whether there are some NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP scanning utilities
> available which do TWAIN image acquisition instead of being written 
specificly
> for each individual piece of hardware?
> 
> -Chuck
> 
>


 TWIN is mainly for the Windows world ( given such exceptions as OS/2 .)  
There
are other paradigms for the Unix world, one such example is SANE which is
a client-server scanning app. ( See http://www.mostang.com/sane/  )  You
can run both the client and the server on the same machine if  you so wish.
Problem is there is no server app compiled for NS. There is a client at
 http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/9199/computer_NeXT.html
but it is for Black only.  In view of this,  about the only ready-made, 
sure-fire, solution is
Scan-O-Matic but you need a SCSI scanner and it is, of course, not TWAIN.
I think it is free now, at least my copy was. Original Poster : Get rid of 
whichever
 Parallel Port or USB you have and get a SCSI scanner from Umax or HP 
( check out what Scan-O-Matic supports. )