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<title>sane-devel: Re: Starting a discussion about SANE and TWAIN...</title>
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<h1>Re: Starting a discussion about SANE and TWAIN...</h1>
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<b>Lars Hanke</b> (<a href="mailto:hanke@janeway.physik.uni-dortmund.de"><i>hanke@janeway.physik.uni-dortmund.de</i></a>)<br>
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<i>Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:54:04 +0100</i>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0125.html">Andreas Beck: "Re: Starting a discussion about SANE and TWAIN..."</a>
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If I read correctly Andy stated that it is possible to have <br>
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something like a TWAIN backend for SANE. The other way round, i.e. a <br>
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TWAIN frontend for SANE is trivial as I understand. Why do not <br>
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implement this as a first step?<br>
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I think this is a good starting point. I don't know how eager <br>
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hardware manufacturers are to write new drivers for different OS, but <br>
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a lot of historical experience shows that they cling to their islands <br>
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as long as possible. Current example: writeable DVD.<br>
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Especially in the WinWorld there had been no real revolutions. There <br>
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are still many people running MS-DOS programs in a Win98 DOS-box. <br>
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Thus if something should be changed it has to run parallel to <br>
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traditional solutions. If SANE or a derivative is offered as a <br>
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second and compatible standard, which requires the TWAIN <br>
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administration to be involved, both standards will melt together <br>
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automatically. And I am convinced that as soon as hardware developers <br>
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notice that a SANE driver doesn't make the scanner eat up pages but <br>
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produces an interface for most platforms in one run, they will turn <br>
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to SANE just by calculating costs and profits.<br>
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What I want to say: If we create a new driver concept from scratch, <br>
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which is neither SANE nor TWAIN, it is pretty unlikely to be used at <br>
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all. Manufacturers will keep to what they know, anything else is <br>
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expensive and a high risk. If SANE becomes an official component, <br>
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customers will learn its advantages and use it. Applications grow <br>
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with possibilities. By now TWAIN is the scanner driver like Win98 is <br>
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built into Pentiums.<br>
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If the aim is a standard cross-(all)-platform solution, introduce <br>
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SANE softly and stable. There is an exploding market with NT-networks <br>
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using Linux servers, which will readily accept this. There even a Win <br>
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only TWAIN frontend would win.<br>
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Just some economical comments,<br>
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<br>
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Lars. (<a href="mailto:hanke@janeway.physik.uni-dortmund.de">hanke@janeway.physik.uni-dortmund.de</a>)<br>
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Tel.: +49-(231)-755-3536<br>
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FAX: +49-(231)-755-3674<br>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0125.html">Andreas Beck: "Re: Starting a discussion about SANE and TWAIN..."</a>
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