I’m building a sw that should be able to read the papers read from a scanner and process them with a minimal user interaction, basically I don’t want the user to jump into another sw, output an image or doc, and insert that into my sw, this kind of problem seems to be fixed when it comes to printers printing, but I couldn’t find something similar for scanners (paper scanners especially, I have no use for QR and barcode scanners), the best I could find is USB HID interface, which seems pretty low level and if I’m not wrong device-specific so I have to write the implementation for each model I need to support (please correct me if I’m wrong), I know this is a Linux community but does Windows have something similar too (my sw will probably need to run on it)
Sorry if this isn’t the most suitable community
Chance that someone already made SANE binding for your programming language of choice, e.g. jfreesane for java, python-sane , etc.
Yes that’s what I’ve been looking for, thanks a lot
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I know TWAIN, so mow I’m curious what SANE stands for.
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Lol 😁 those people sure do know how to acronym!
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I didn’t know TWAIN, so I looked it up and am glad I did:
TWAIN: Technology Without An Interesting Name
Yeah that seems like it, thanks
They also have https://sane-project.gitlab.io/website/ (got an SSL error with your link)
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It is an https website. The first time I tried I got the warning that the certificate is self-signed, but now it shows that it’s secure
Yes, you can now use AirScan (also called something else I don’t recall currently) for “driverless” scanning.
Is that Apple-specific?
No, it’s a cross platform standard. You can even run a server on Linux interfacing with SANE to convert older scanners.
I looked up the non-Apple name and it’s eSCL. That’s a lot easier to search for.
Found it, thx
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