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TWAIN SANE Interface for MacOS (10.10 and Next Versions)

Make your OLD Scanner back to Service !!

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This Repository contains Pre-Build Software (Binaries) in form of Package Installation (PKG / DMG) for recent MACOS(10.9 => +), also old MacOS Leopard (10.6) .

You can put your request for any improvement or request to obtain older version in https://github.com/genose/macos-scanner-interface-twain-sane-binaries/issues

Or use Old Packages for MAC 10.6 / 10.9 from from Mattias Ellert's Official site :http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/

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**** For Other Operating Systems (Linux, Windows, Beos/Zeta, SunOS ...) **** **** OR more Information about sane-project, Please Refer to : [http://sane-project.org/] Official Site ****

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NO SKILLS IN XCODE nor HOMEBREW nor MACPORT nor BASH are needed

JUST DOWNLOAD, OPEN PKG INSTALLER AND FOLLOW ON-SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS

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History :

04/2019 : Fork Mattias Ellert work, aged from 2015 05/2019 : Workarounds and Revisions are designed from historic maintener : Mattias Ellert's Official site :http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/ ( Sane-Backend Based on Release Version 1.0.25 )

09/2020 : Project still active and planned has follow

• Use last official sources (Backends and Frontends) release from sane-project [http://sane-project.org/] ( last version 1.0.31 )
• Quartz compliant GUI ( ImageKit / IKScannerDeviceView )
• ImageCapture compliant (ICA)
• Release for Pre-Sierra ERA (10.9-10.12) to Catalina (10.15)
• Release also for older version (10.6, in reflection)
• ARM / (PPC) / INTEL (i386 / x86)

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Provided software is distributed as-is with no warranty, tested by community

Used Software :

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Installation and USAGE

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Which packages to Download ...

There is Different "Branches"

• Archives
• Current Release (ALL_IN_ONE), contain all you need ...

For Older MacOS Version in /MACOS-OLDERVERSION-ARCHIVES/

MACOS-OLDERVERSION-ARCHIVES
  |__ TWAIN-SANE-Scanner-(PKGVERSION)-MACOS-(MACOSMINORVERSION)-(MACOSMAJORVERSION)-SDK-(SDKVERSION).pkg

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This will give you all depencies, such :

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  |__ libusb
  |__ gettext
  |__ sane-backends
  |__ TWAIN-SANE-Interface
  |__ SANE-Preference-Pane

** Exemple ( Mojave ) **

MACOS-10.14
  |__ TWAIN-SANE-Scanner-ALL_IN_ONE-(PKGVERSION)-MACOS-10.14-10.14.11-MACOSSDK-10.14.dmg

** Exemple ( Catalina ) **

MACOS-10.15
  |__ TWAIN-SANE-Scanner-ALL_IN_ONE-(PKGVERSION)-MACOS-10.15-10.15.11-MACOSSDK-10.14.dmg

** Exemple ( BigSur, Anticipated for 2021 ) **

MACOS-11
  |__ (Beta not Tested)

Just Install packages corresponding to your MacOS Version, OPEN PKG FILE and follow instructions

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Test scanner :

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User-Friendly Method :

**** TODO Installation Post Process : ****

Avanced User Method :

• Open Terminal.app and enter the following command :

scanimage --format jpg > test.jpg

Your scanner should react and make a picture sample (100px X 100px)

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Note about TWAIN Support

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Beside some fact, We Love Twain integration.

• Adobe annouced in 2015 there is no Further support in Photoshop for TWAIN Integration, dues to "Some Resitrictions Caused by Twain", that means Money not in us Pokets
• Apple make it more difficult to interfacing with ImageCapture.app

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About Remote / Shared Scan

Server sonfiguration

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Server side configuration taken here

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Client configuration

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• Download and Install all packages
• Modify sane config file

sudo vi /usr/local/etc/sane.d/net.conf

Add IP of your Sane scaner at the last line

# This is the net backend config file.

## net backend options
# Timeout for the initial connection to saned. This will prevent the backend
# from blocking for several minutes trying to connect to an unresponsive
# saned host (network outage, host down, ...). Value in seconds.
# connect_timeout = 60

## saned hosts
# Each line names a host to attach to.
# If you list "localhost" then your backends can be accessed either
# directly or through the net backend.  Going through the net backend
# may be necessary to access devices that need special privileges.
# localhost
192.168.1.1  # Add this line with correct IP address

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Test scan

scanimage --format jpg > test.jpg

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** Thanks to Mattias Ellert, for all this Year of Maintaining SANE TWAIN for MacOS **

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About HOMEBREW and other installation methods

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Homebrew is another way to get software installed on your computer. But it required some skill in BASH usage and Homebrew command line argument.

• You had to download the right version of XCode depends on what Version of MacOS you using.
• You had to use Terminal.app and type some commands to install
  • Homebrew
  • Sane-backend
  • Sane-interface

OR IF you a very skilled one.

• You can try by yourself to install latest Sane Project's version
• You had to download the right version of XCode depends on what Version of MacOS you using
• You had to use Terminal.app and type some commands to compile and install Sane