TWAIN SANE Interface for MacOS (10.10 and Next Versions)

Make your OLD Scanner back to Service !!

This Repository contains Pre-Build Software (Binaries) in form of Package Installation (PKG / DMG) for recent MACOS(10.9 => +), also old MacOS Leopard (10.6) .

You can put your request for any improvement or request to obtain older version in https://github.com/genose/macos-scanner-interface-twain-sane-binaries/issues

Or use Old Packages for MAC 10.6 / 10.9 from from Mattias Ellert's Official site :http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/

**** For Other Operating Systems (Linux, Windows, Beos/Zeta, SunOS ...) **** **** OR more Information about sane-project, Please Refer to : [http://sane-project.org/] Official Site ****

NO SKILLS IN XCODE nor HOMEBREW nor MACPORT nor BASH are needed

JUST DOWNLOAD, OPEN PKG INSTALLER AND FOLLOW ON-SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS

History :

04/2019 : Fork Mattias Ellert work, aged from 2015 05/2019 : Workarounds and Revisions are designed from historic maintener : Mattias Ellert's Official site :http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/ ( Sane-Backend Based on Release Version 1.0.25 )

09/2020 : Project still active and planned has follow

Use last official sources (Backends and Frontends) release from sane-project [http://sane-project.org/] ( last version 1.0.31 )
Quartz compliant GUI ( ImageKit / IKScannerDeviceView )
ImageCapture compliant (ICA)
Release for Pre-Sierra ERA (10.9-10.12) to Catalina (10.15)
Release also for older version (10.6, in reflection)
ARM / (PPC) / INTEL (i386 / x86)

Provided software is distributed as-is with no warranty, tested by community

Used Software :

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Installation and USAGE

Which packages to Download ...

There is Different "Branches"

Archives
Current Release (ALL_IN_ONE), contain all you need ...

For Older MacOS Version in /MACOS-OLDERVERSION-ARCHIVES/

MACOS-OLDERVERSION-ARCHIVES
  |__ TWAIN-SANE-Scanner-(PKGVERSION)-MACOS-(MACOSMINORVERSION)-(MACOSMAJORVERSION)-SDK-(SDKVERSION).pkg

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This will give you all depencies, such :

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TWAIN-SANE-Scanner
  |__ libusb
  |__ gettext
  |__ sane-backends
  |__ TWAIN-SANE-Interface
  |__ SANE-Preference-Pane

** Exemple ( Mojave ) **

MACOS-10.14
  |__ TWAIN-SANE-Scanner-ALL_IN_ONE-(PKGVERSION)-MACOS-10.14-10.14.11-MACOSSDK-10.14.dmg

** Exemple ( Catalina ) **

MACOS-10.15
  |__ TWAIN-SANE-Scanner-ALL_IN_ONE-(PKGVERSION)-MACOS-10.15-10.15.11-MACOSSDK-10.14.dmg

** Exemple ( BigSur, Anticipated for 2021 ) **

MACOS-11
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Just Install packages corresponding to your MacOS Version, OPEN PKG FILE and follow instructions

Test scanner :

User-Friendly Method :

**** TODO Installation Post Process : ****

Avanced User Method :

Open Terminal.app and enter the following command :

scanimage --format jpg > test.jpg

Your scanner should react and make a picture sample (100px X 100px)

Note about TWAIN Support

Beside some fact, We Love Twain integration.

Adobe annouced in 2015 there is no Further support in Photoshop for TWAIN Integration, dues to "Some Resitrictions Caused by Twain", that means Money not in us Pokets
Apple make it more difficult to interfacing with ImageCapture.app

About Remote / Shared Scan

Server sonfiguration

Server side configuration taken here

Client configuration

Download and Install all packages
Modify sane config file

sudo vi /usr/local/etc/sane.d/net.conf

Add IP of your Sane scaner at the last line

# This is the net backend config file.

## net backend options
# Timeout for the initial connection to saned. This will prevent the backend
# from blocking for several minutes trying to connect to an unresponsive
# saned host (network outage, host down, ...). Value in seconds.
# connect_timeout = 60

## saned hosts
# Each line names a host to attach to.
# If you list "localhost" then your backends can be accessed either
# directly or through the net backend.  Going through the net backend
# may be necessary to access devices that need special privileges.
# localhost
192.168.1.1  # Add this line with correct IP address

Test scan

scanimage --format jpg > test.jpg

** Thanks to Mattias Ellert, for all this Year of Maintaining SANE TWAIN for MacOS **

About HOMEBREW and other installation methods

Homebrew is another way to get software installed on your computer. But it required some skill in BASH usage and Homebrew command line argument.

You had to download the right version of XCode depends on what Version of MacOS you using.
You had to use Terminal.app and type some commands to install
- Homebrew
- Sane-backend
- Sane-interface

OR IF you a very skilled one.

You can try by yourself to install latest Sane Project's version
You had to download the right version of XCode depends on what Version of MacOS you using
You had to use Terminal.app and type some commands to compile and install Sane