Scanner Drivers Cheat Sheet by [deleted] via cheatography.com/2754/cs/14504/ Introdu​ ction Compare 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 Microsoft Windows. ​ 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 (Scanner Access Now Easy) 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/ By [deleted] Published 30th January, 2018. Sponsored by CrosswordCheats.com cheatography.com/deleted- Last updated 30th January, 2018. Learn to solve cryptic crosswords! 2754/ Page 1 of 1. http://crosswordcheats.com.