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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Is there a unified scanner (the hardware) driver like what we have for printers? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I didn't know TWAIN, so I looked it up and am glad I did:

TWAIN: Technology Without An Interesting Name