On Mon October 16 2006 19:56, Art wrote:
> I have installed Open Office ver. 2.0.4 on my iMac running OS X
> version 10.4.8 (Intel Processor).  I tried to import a scanned image
> but my scanner (HP Scanjet 8200) was not recognized Checking the help
> file, I found:
>
> Inserting a Scanned Image
> To insert a scanned image, the scanner must be connected to your
> system and the scanner software drivers must be installed.
> The Scanner must support the SANE standard.
>
> I am unfamiliar with the sane standard.  An internet search on "sane
> twain" led me to "TWAIN SANE Interface version 1.8" from http://
> www.sane-project.org/.  While this seems to work, it has crashed from
> time to time leaving an error message on screen that could not be
> closed.  (I will pursue this issue with the author of the interface).
>
> My question is:  Is there a preferred interface to use a twain scanner?

Not that I am aware of, but it is also not clear if Apple supports this 
standard. Maybe asking on http://porting.openoffice.org/mac would clarify 
that question. 
The alternative is to use the OSX scanning application, save the image and 
then insert that into OOo.


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