Toolkit Without An Interesting Name - The software equivalent of a travel plug adapter permitting a TWAIN-compliant digital camera or scanner to "bridge" or communicate with, for example, an [..]

An “acquire” or import interface, developed as a standard for communications between scanners, imaging devices, digital cameras and the computer software. TWAIN allows you to import (acquire) an image [..]

Old English twegen "two" (masc. nominative and accusative), from Proto-Germanic *twa- "two" (see two). It corresponds to Old Frisian twene, Dutch twee, Old High German zwene, Danis [..]

Although represented in all upper-case lettering, the word TWAIN is not an acronym, and was derived from Rudyard Kipling's The Ballad of East and West which contains the line "and never the [..]

WebGuest Dictionary Software developed by the Twain Working Group (scanner manufacturers and scanning software developers) in order to facilitate scanning of pictures. The TWAIN driver runs between the scanner hardware and the program (Photoshop, PhotoPaint, etc.).According to the Twain Working Group, "TWAIN" is not intended to be [..]

The de facto interface standard for scanners. Nearly all scanners come with a TWAIN driver, which makes them compatible with any TWAIN-supporting software. However, not all scanner software is TWAIN-c [..]

A middleware software driver that allows the hardware scanner driver or hardware interface for a scanner to talk to a Twain Compliant information acquisition source within a software application. The organization governing the TWAIN standards is HTTP://WWW.TWAIN.ORG. It is rumored that the name came from many sources. One possibility is an acronym [..]

[Toolkit Without An Interesting Name] A set of operations that allow scanners to have a standard interface to software. This allows the use of your favorite graphics package with your favorite scanner without worrying if one will support the other. As long as both are TWAIN-complaint they will work together.

TWAIN (Technology Without An Important Name). A style of device driver for scanners.

(n) two items of the same kind

This is the standard used for scanners and digital imaging devices. A TWAIN driver is normally included with a scanner, webcam, digital camera, or other digital imaging device.

(Technology Without An Industry Name). Protocol for exchanging information between applications and devices such as scanners and digital cameras. TWAIN makes it possible for digital cameras and softwa [..]

Communication protocol between digital imaging devices (scanners, cameras etc.) and PCs.

A small file thats dropped into the acquire folder of programs such as Photoshop. Then you would go to Twain>Acquire and the computer would connect to the scanner or frame grabber and operate it fr [..]

TWAIN (Technology Without An Interesting Name) is a standard defined by a coalition of companies for the exchange of data between image input devices, such as digital cameras (like those from Basler) [..]

Twain stands for “Toolkit Without An Interesting Name”. It is an acqisition interface that was created by a consortium of software developers as standard protocol for communication between scanners, imaging devices, digital cameras, and the computer software (i.e. Aperture, Lightbox, Photoshop).

Protocol for exchanging information between applications and devices such as scanners and digital cameras. TWAIN makes it possible for digital cameras and software to "talk" with one another [..]

Developed by a consortium of imaging hardware and software manufacturers, TWAIN is a cross-platform interface for acquiring electronic images captured by TWAIN-compliant scanners, digital cameras and [..]

TWAIN is an application programming interface (API) and transportation protocol that helps in establishing communication between software and digital image devices such as scanners, webcams, CCTVs or [..]