TWAIN

Sometimes incorrectly referred to as Technology Without An Interesting Name, TWAIN is actually from Kipling's poem "The Ballard of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall meet...".

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 types of 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.

• Complete information about TWAIN can be found at http://www.twain.org.
• If you are looking for TWAIN and/or scanner drivers, please see our scanner driver page.
• Additional information and help with computer scanners can be found on our Scanner page.

Also see: ISIS, Scanner definitions