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TWAIN-SANE Scanner Drivers for Mac OS X

Posted by timothy on from the scan-in-your-love-letters-before-burning dept.

ubiquitin writes "The MacGIMP site has a story about TWAIN-SANE, which is a TWAIN datasource for Mac OS X that lets you use the SANE backend libraries. It means that most if not all of the the SANE project's long list of supported hardware can now be used on Mac OS X."

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  1. How to configure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unfortunately, most people porting this stuff to the Mac from Linux/Unix/BSD forget one critical thing, *good installation instructions*.

    So, I managed to get the "product" installed using the three different installers necessary (that's crazy, make one bloody installer that installs all three parts), but all I get is an error message that "No Image Source was found by the SANE library". Looking around, it seems that I need a specific package for my scanner. OK, I seem to have found that, but there aren't any instructions I can find which tell me where the heck to PUT IT (although I'm sure some of you will have suggestions :-)

    MAC USERS NEED CLEAR MANUALS, period. If you aren't going to bother making the product usable by 99% of the installed Mac user base because you neglect to write 10 minutes worth of text that says:

    Step 1: Do this
    Step 2: Do that
    Step 3: Put this thing here ...

    in clear step-by-step terms, then why port the software in the first place?