TWAIN Standards Hardware

TWAIN

TWAIN (technology without an important [interesting] name) The software was developed by a work group from major scanner manufacturers and scanning software developers and is now an industry standard. In several accounts, TWAIN was an acronym developed playfully from "technology without an important name." However, the Hewlett-Packard site says that it is not an acronym but stands for the bringing together of applications and scanners in a "meeting of the TWAIN" (meaning the bringing together of two sides). The separate TWAIN Web site says that it doesn't stand for anything. "TWAIN is TWAIN."

• - Standard software protocol and application programming interface for communication between software applications and image acquisition devices. Article by Hewlett-Packard.
  
• - A not-for-profit organization which represents the imaging industry. TWAIN's purpose is to provide and foster a universal public standard which links applications and image acquisition devices. The mission of this organization is to continue to enhance th
  
  

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