I recently purchased some music scanning software (Advanced Photoscore Professional). It says to set up the scanner and TWAIN driver following the guidelines in the scanner's accompanying documentation.

I have Windows ME and an HP Office Jet K60 All-in-One.

I looked in the manual and the scanning section didn't mention anything about TWAIN drivers. The help section didn't mention it either.

Does anyone what this is referring to?

I think what the software manual means is that the scanner and it's TWAIN driver should be setup in the manner described by the scanner. The TWAIN is just the name of the driver. The scanner setup will install it in the same way an installation program installs all other system files.

I think the reason they even mention the TWAIN drivers at all is because a very popular graphics *program has special instructions about installing the TWAIN drivers in a particular folder. I believe they're just telling you that whatever scanner you're using will have the TWAIN drivers installed correctly.

By the way, usually when accessing a scanner from a "third party" software program, you click File/Acquire and select the scanner you wish to use. From that point on you can just click File/Scan. I've seen one program where they reverse that process. You start with File/Select TWAIN Source, then from that point on it's File/Acquire.

There is a popular myth that TWAIN is an acronym for: Technology Without An Interesting Name. This site debunks that myth.

I hope this is of some help!

Dwight

*Adobe Photoshop

Thanks Dwight for the informative answer. In other words, there isn't anything that I have to do about the TWAIN drivers. So I won't worry about it.

My sofware disc didn't install my TWAIN driver. I went to the site for the brad I bought. They usually have product support. Try a search for your scanner TWAIN driver. I would put it to the desktop so you know easily where it is. You aren't done yet. There will be instructions on how to install it. This one gave me fits!

I have a Hewlett-Packard. How do I search for the scanner TWAIN driver, and how do I put it to the desktop.

Are you having a problem with your Advanced Photoscore Professional or with your HP scanner? If so, what is the happening? If there are no problems, I suggest just leaving the TWAIN driver alone.

PHOTOSCORE SUPPORT AND FAQ

Dwight

I haven't been able to check answerpool lately.

For a while I was getting a message about not being able to use the TWAIN interface, but I don't remember the actual wording.

I just now tried it. I didn't get that message this time. It seems to scan through the HP, because it uses HP's dialog boxes instead of Photoscore's. HP's dialog box automatically selects "Photo." The other options are "Editable Text" and "Text as Image." Am I using the right option?

Photoscore's FAQs page said to use 16 or 256 shades of gray which is called 8-bit grayscale, and at a resolution between 200 and 600. I scanned a page at 300, 8-bit grayscale. Then I got a message "This has been scanned at a pixel type unsuitable for music. Scan in black and white or in 16 or 256 shades of gray at a resolution between 200 and 600."

Photoscore says they don't provide any technical support for scanning, that you have to get that from the scanner manufacturer.

Thanks for your help.