Date:  Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:25:49 +0930
From:  Paul Smedley <paul at smedley.info>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Press release about TWAIN USB scanner support on eComStation/OS/2

From: Roderick Klein <rwkleinDESPAM at DESPAMmensys.nl>

Solution Technologies, Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Mensys B.V. , Haarlem, The Netherlands
Paul Smedley, Greenwith, South Australia

Solution Technology, Mensys B.V. and Paul Smedley have come to an 
agreement to work together to provide a solution for legacy 
OS/2/eComStation applications that use a TWAIN interface to control a
flatbed scanner.

TWAIN provides a standard interface that applications can use to
control a scanner.  All scanners currently supported on the 
OS/2/eComStation platform that have a driver with a TWAIN interface are 
legacy scanners with a SCSI interface. The result is that applications 
that ship with a

TWAIN interface are not very useful anymore because modern scanners are
not supported.

Solution Technologies has provided the source code of its OS/2 TWAIN
DDK so an interface can be built between SANE and TWAIN.

The result will be that applications that access a flatbed scanner via
a TWAIN interface will be able to utilize USB scanners with the aid of
the open source scanner driver SANE (http://www.sane-project.org/)

Kent Swan from Solution Technology: "This agreement enables Solution
Technology to keep supporting its corporate OS/2/eComStation customers
with up to date scanner support. The OS/2 kernel provides very good
multi tasking and stability, the reason why some our customers prefer
to run our scanner solutions on OS/2/eComStation. In conjunction with
this agreement and the development Serenity Systems is doing for the
eComStation we can provide our customers with a solution to keep their
critical business processes going."

Paul Smedley from Australia and other developers have over the years
been maintaining a port of the open source scanner driver SANE on the
OS/2/eComStation platform.

When a beta release is ready for release of the TWAIN<->SANE interface
it will be included with all SANE builds for OS/2. Custom applications
and well known eComStation/OS/2 applications like PMVIEW, Embelish,
Star Office for OS/2 etc will be able to use SANE supported USB scanners.

Future versions of eComStation will ship with this package
and also the TAME software (a program to use in conjunction with SANE).

For corporate customers requiring support for their applications,
please contact Solution Technology.



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