Technology-What is TWAIN?

TWAIN:

Its the technology used to capture data from scanner, web camera to the PC.

There is an interesting story behind this technology.

Some companies had co-jointly found this technology (a universal standard
TWAIN ), but they doesn't know how to name this technology. And, they
didn't come to a uniform name. So, finally they decided to keep the name as
TWAIN.

TWAIN stands for Technology Without An Interesting Name.

cool isn't it!!!

Where can I find this feature / tech:
* take any photo editing tool like photoshop, ACDSee etc.
* In these tools u can check for Acquire option -> Twain setup. (for
scanner and web camera).

Note: The drivers written for scanners and web camera has to be developed
based on TWAIN standard, then only the image editing s/w or any other s/w
can get data using their drivers.