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Scanner Manufac​ tur​ er's make their own decisions as to which of these drivers they will release and support. Consequ​ ently, some scanners support TWAIN only, ISIS only or WIA only. Others scanners will support a mixture of these drivers (TWAIN and WIA, or TWAIN and ISIS, or WIA and ISIS). While others scanners will support all 3 of these drivers.. We are often asked what's better TWAIN, ISIS or WIA?

1. TWAIN

TWAIN Specifi​ cat​ ions are written by the TWAIN Working Group.  The TWAIN Working Group is made up of scanning hardware and software vendors that have a common goal of continu​ ally developing 3. WIA and improving the TWAIN platform. Windows Image Acquisi​ tion is an entry level driver interface support  ​ ​ The TWAIN specification is being continually updated, and most natively by . ​ production level scanner manufacturers regularly update their  Designed primarily for use with digital cameras and SOHO ​ TWAIN drivers to take advantage of new TWAIN functionality scanning devices.  TWAIN supports Windows.  Only runs on Windows.  TWAIN is generally free.  WIA is not functio​ nally rich like TWAIN and ISIS.  TWAIN is the most widely shipped scanner driver by most  WIA is bare bones and just presents enough settings in the UI to scanning hardware and software vendors. get the scanner to perform a simple scan of one of more pages.  TWAIN is now supporting high speed scanning. It performs well on  When it doesn't work it's often hard to get the vendors to quickly scanners that scan at up to 200 PPM. fix a WIA driver issue.  Based on our past experience TWAIN drivers are robust.  If it's the only scanner driver provided with your scanner then use Rating:      it, otherwise recomme​ nded using TWAIN or ISIS drivers instead.

Rating:    2. ISIS

ISIS originally created by Pixel Transla​ tions is now owned by EMC. 4. SANE  There is a charge associated with developing and using the ISIS SANE () is an applica​ tion program​ ming ​ ​ ​ drivers.Scanner manufacturers pay EMC royalties to use ISIS interface (API) commonly used in UNIX (including GNU/Lin​ ux). driverss. SANE is an open source project. You can download its source code  ​ TUpdates to ISIS drivers are infrequent. (latest version 1.0.24) at http://​ www​ .sa​ ne-​ pro​ jec​ t.or​ g/​ sou​ rce​ .html .  ISIS claims to be faster than TWAIN. In our testing we have found Unlike TWAIN, SANE separates the user-in​ ter​ face (front-​ end) from ​ that it's not significantly faster.. the driver of a device (backend). The SANE driver only provides a  ​ ISIS UI often exposes less functionality than the equivalent TWAIN backend interface, with the hardware and the use of a number of ​ UI does. This can be quite frustrating for scanner operators. “options” to drive each scan. One example of an option to define the  If an ISIS driver breaks it is difficult to get the issue fixed quickly. scan area is as below  Some vendors now include ISIS drivers for free, whilst others may Rating:     charge extra for an ISIS driver, or charge tiered pricing for that ISIS driver as the size and speed of the scanners increases. Open Source C# Components  Based on our past experience we think that ISIS drivers are slightly less robust than TWAIN drivers. Saraff.Twa​ in.NET is the skilful scanning component https:/​ /ar​ chi​ ve.cod​ epl​ ex.com​ /?p​ =sa​ raf​ ftwain Rating:      NAPS2 (Not Another PDF Scanner 2) https:/​ /ww​ w.na​ ps​ 2.com/

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