OT: scanning (was: Re: scanning)

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Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Brian K. White done said:
> 
> I have found a few actually open source twain implementations but none 
> are very useful without serious reworking. They are all part of 
> something else and not easy to extract by someone of my microscopic 
> skill. One is a sample app from the twain foundation itself, one is a 
> python module, one is a gui app that's actually a kde/qt native linux 
> app and probably not easy to port to windows, one is a module that's 
> part of Gimp. The sample app from the twain foundation itself seems to 
> be the closest to being possible to make into a simple command line util.

http://www.bluechillies.com/details/42319.html

Just was looking...it's not open source, I don't think, but it might be an
alternative anyway, given the freeware pricetag.

You -do- know that Windows itself has a twain.dll that you could
theoretically build a utility or just PuTTY functionality around, right?

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