twain drivers
 

i have a pacific image scanner and a cheap polaroid fun 320 camera that i want to use under mandrake 8.2.
is there any way to get these to work?
it appears that gphoto support project for the camera has been abandoned.
i have the win 98 software/twain drivers only.

[/quote]Question: What is TWAIN an acronym for?

Answer: An image capture API for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. The standard was first released in 1992, and is currently ratified at version 1.9 as of January 2000. TWAIN is typically used as an interface between image processing software and a scanner or digital camera.[/quote]

Straight outta the www.twain.org FAQ

I don't know if this means that it's made for MSFT and Mac alone, but that's how I read it.

How does your devices connect? Your scanner might be usable via SANE drivers. Check out the website to see:http://www.mostang.com/sane/

Your camera might be a little trickier, but depending on how it connects, someone might have a solution.

Cool

Oh and btw
UTAH RULES!

twin driver cont.
 

the camera connects via a serial port and the scanner via parallel.

both came with crappy software. i'll drop MSFT altogether if i can just get the camera and scanner to work .

any additional info on woudl be ap[preciated.

What model is your scanner, I can do the leg work for you at least on that to see if SANE supports it.

As for your camera, I don't know jack about cameras that connect that way. I have a USB Sony camera, and it's very straight forward, but I haven't ever dealt with a serial port in Linux yet, so that ones up to someone who is better than I (which should be just about anybody :) )

Cool

This is the same problem I had with abandoning MS, not the scanner, just the camera. Honestly, I bought my way around the arragnement. My camera had the same issues, serial, no support past win98, no gphoto support ever, Vivitar are a bunch of twerps. Mine runs on a Compact flash card so I just picked up a $15 USB CF card reader, its just another USB mass storage device.

If the scanner is a Parrallel port, you might be zorked there, PP scanners required specific drivers per scanner. One of the most common tricks for linux device driver writers is to make something wildly specific work under a universal standard, hence why all linux burning is done through convincing the CD-RW that its just another SCSI device. Very few parrallel port scanners can work like this...

The sane list is long, and there is some jockeying around you can do... also remember for some reason PP scanners only work under root, and sane has a nice little GUI front-end, but it is a bit of a headache to get running.

Cheers,

Finegan