This week I come to know new technology area called twain. I trying write starting points for this technology from Java view. We can have two types of it according to use.
Local Scanning: This is standalone scanning where scanner, scanning software and scanned image persisted on same machine.
Web / Remote Scanning: This is web page gets loaded from Web site and this page will allow user to scan image and upload to Web site.
More details I will add as proceed.
http://www.twain.org/abouttwain.shtm