Washington, March 10 --
Emphasizing support for open source and building on its previous
participation in the OpenUSB Project, Kodak today announced at FOSE 2009 in
Washington, D.C., the availability of a robust, open source and production
quality scanning application for use on the LINUX Operating System called
ScanTWAIN. ScanTWAIN functionality will support duplex scanning at rated speed
on automatic document feeder (ADF) based scanners, like those available from
Kodak. The ScanTWAIN scanning application is available via the SourceForge
website and is issued under GPL, Gnu Public License, version 2.
“Business needs continue to generate high demand for specialized solutions
and open source systems offer a flexible, effective and affordable option,”
said Tony Barbeau, Vice President, Marketing, Document Imaging, Business
Solutions and Services, Eastman Kodak Company. “Kodak is pleased to
offer new image scanning capabilities and solutions via ScanTWAIN and our TWAIN
2.0 data source, or driver, for LINUX Operating Systems.”
As a member of the TWAIN Working Group, Kodak was influential in the
creation of the new TWAIN 2.0 standard to fully support LINUX Operating
Systems. Kodak is the first vendor to offer all the advanced scanning
capabilities on LINUX OS that are normally available for its products on
WINDOWS OS. In fact, Kodak’s TWAIN data source user interface for LINUX OS
provides the same look, feel and functionality as the WINDOWS OS version.
Kodak’s TWAIN 2.0 data source user interface is fully internationalized,
with support for English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian
Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Czech, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Additionally, TWAIN 2.0 support programmatic control of the scanner without
a GUI, enabling customers to create custom imaging solutions that separate
scanning application components over the network.
Kodak also has released a SANE, Scanner Access Now Easy, driver for those
users looking for compatibility with current LINUX OS based imaging
applications such as the GIMP, Gnu Image Manipulation Program. More information
regarding the SANE protocol and project can be found at www.sane-project.org.
The following KODAK Document Scanners fully support LINUX OS:
- KODAK i1210 Scanner
- KODAK i1220 Scanner
- KODAK i1310 Scanner
- KODAK i1320 Scanner
- KODAK i1410 Scanner
- KODAK i1420 Scanner
- KODAK i1440 Scanner
- KODAK A3 Flatbed Accessory
- KODAK A4 Flatbed Accessory
LINUX distributions which are fully supported (user interface requires
Mono Version 1.26 or higher):
- SUSE 10.1+
- FEDORA 8+
- UBUNTU 6.06+
More information about the LINUX Operating System support can be found
through the following sites:
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