Twain Scanners and some other questions

[Chris Gonnerman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Hodgson" <garry at sage.att.com>


> Jimmy Retzlaff wrote:
> > 
> > dix wrote:
> > > I need to know if there is a free library for Python to manage Twain
> > > scanners in order to pilot the scanner and have an image
> > representation
> > > of the paper document.
> > 
> > The wonderful Daily Python-URL (http://www.pythonware.com/daily) just
> > pointed to http://twainmodule.sourceforge.net a few days ago. 
> 
> but this only works on windows, making it useless for real computers.

Ah, dix is interested in *TWAIN* scanner drivers, so necessarily that means
Windows.  The TWAIN driver interface isn't used outside the M$ world AFAIK.