Custom TWAIN Controller Interface

Why use TWAIN?

The TWAIN standard is a well defined and widely supported image acquisition standard utilized by software packages to acquire images and image data from a wide range of imaging hardware without having to make special customizations. Since a vast majority (if not all) of the imaging products or products that utilize imaging in some form are TWAIN compliant, integrating a TWAIN source automatically introduces many hardware capture options into software packages without requiring changes in the target applications. In addition, due to the nature of TWAIN, changes to your hardware and/or drivers only require changes to the TWAIN source and not to any of the applications that utilize the imaging hardware through the TWAIN standard.

But won't it take a long time to custom develop a new TWAIN interface for third-party software?

One disadvantage used to be that producing a TWAIN source required more time to program and produce a deliverable than that for a toolkit. This is due to the fact that not only does the software-to-hardware interface have to be developed (just as for the toolkit) but also the TWAIN software-to-software protocol.

Apteryx has changed that by creating a TWAIN interface that only requires a few changes before we can deliver it. We have shortened a process that used to take weeks to only a couple days.

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How to order your own TWAIN interface

Simply email us with your contact information, and we will get back to you with the appropriate information.