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What (who) is twain - definition

STANDARD USED IN IMAGE SCANNING

twain

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE

Twain (disambiguation)

n.

[Nearly obsolete.] Two.

Twain

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Twain (disambiguation)

·adj & ·noun Two;

- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.

TWAIN

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Twain (disambiguation)

<graphics, standard> An image capture API for {Microsoft Windows} and Apple Macintosh operating systems that enables the user to control a scanner or digital camera from image processing software. TWAIN was first released on 1992-02-29 and is currently ratified at version 2.0 as of 2005-11-28. It is maintained by the TWAIN Working Group. Kevin Bier, chairman-emeritus of the TWAIN Working Group and the one of the original co-author/editors of TWAIN 1.0, chose the name TWAIN after reading letters by Mark Twain. It was unofficially considered to mean "toolkit without an important name." The word "twain" is an archaic form meaning "two". It appears in Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall meet...", reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive. This led people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to come up with an expansion. None were selected, but the entry "Technology Without An Interesting Name" continues to haunt the standard. The TWAIN Working Group (http://twain.org/). (2000-02-25)

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TWAIN

TWAIN and TWAIN Direct are application programming interfaces (APIs) and communication protocols that regulate communication between software and digital imaging devices, such as image scanners and digital cameras. TWAIN is supported on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

The three key elements of TWAIN are:

Application software. For example, graphics software, a fax application or a word processor.
Source manager software. The source manager software is a software library provided by the TWAIN Working Group.
Device drivers (referred to as "Source software" in the specification document)

Both the application and the device driver must support TWAIN for the interface to be successfully used.

The first release was in 1992, and it was last updated in 2021.

It was designed with the help of a number of companies from the computer industry, to try to establish a unified standard connection interface between computers and imaging devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWAIN

Examples of use of twain

1. Twain was even more unschooled and more of an outlander.

2. And to paraphrase Twain, clothes make the air guitarist.

3. Happier times: Shania Twain with husband Robert Lange Ms.

4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Penguin 23.

5. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Penguin 24.