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:
Information and KODAK Scanner Drivers , www.kodak.com/go/scanonlinux
ScanTWAIN source code http://scantwain.sourceforge.net
The TWAIN Working Group, www.twain.org
TWAIN developer discussions , www.twainforum.org
Other sample code for TWAIN http://sourceforge.net/projects/twain
The openUSB project, http://openusb.sourceforge.net
About Kodak
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More information about KODAK Document Imaging Scanners and Services is available at
www.kodak.com/go/docimaging.
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Media Contacts:
Jack Kasperski, Kodak, +1 585-724-5130, Jack.Kasperski@kodak.com
Shannon Lappin, Eric Mower and Associates, +1 585-389-1868, KodakPR@mower.com
(Kodak is a trademark of Eastman Kodak Company.)
2009
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