[Wine] TWAIN scanners query

Martin Gregorie martin at gregorie.org
Fri Apr 22 17:39:59 CDT 2011


On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 15:25 -0500, dimesio wrote:
> Martin Gregorie wrote:
> > 
> > Where might I find a list of TWAIN apps that are known to run under Wine
> > and/or the status of Wine's TWAIN package?
> > 
> 
> Wine's TWAIN just forwards to SANE. 
> http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/misc-things-to-configure#AEN754
> 
That figures. Thanks for the explanation.

I haven't yet tried to use a Windows app to run the scanner: my current
plan is use a native program such as ScanVue, which claims to support my
scanner, but although the kernel recognises my scanner when its plugged
in, it doesn't log anything about creating a device file for it and,
when started, ScanVue says there's no scanner connected so evidently
something is missing. From what you say, this would also stop a Wine app
from finding the scanner: thats worth knowing too.

This thread is the result of me noticing that the wine-twain package was
part of today's Fedora upgrade which moved Wine from 1.3.16 to 1.3.17.
Seeing that set me thinking about trying a Windows app instead.
Naturally, I had a look at the appDB and was extremely surprised to find
no hits for the obvious key-words twain, scanner, Minolta or Scan Dual.
So this thread is an attempt to find out if any current Wine apps use
TWAIN - the answer seems to be NO! 

I'll post something here if/when I get either ScanVue or a Wine app to
notice the scanner.


Martin
   




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