When shall the TWAIN meet? Scanner makers rush to keep up with OS X compatibility. (Mac Beat).

It gets its name from the Rudyard Kipling poem "The Ballad of East and West." It's an image-input technology that's included as part of the core of Mac OS X 10.2. It's called TWAIN, an acronym that doesn't actually stand for anything. But the only thing that many Mac users want to know is when TWAIN will help their scanners work in OS X.

TWAIN is a standard software protocol that lets your computer communicate with imaging devices--particularly scanners. The term "TWAIN compliance" refers to a scanner's ability to use this broadly accepted method of ...

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