On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Jim Lee <jle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 06/15/2018 05:00 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 4:52 AM, Rob Gaddi >> <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> wrote: >>> >>> On 06/15/2018 11:44 AM, Larry Martell wrote: >>>> >>>> My favorite acronym of all time is TWAIN >>>> >>> Really? I always thought it didn't scan. >>> >> Having spent way WAY too many hours trying to turn documents into >> images (and text), I very much appreciate that laugh. >> >> ChrisA > > I once had a Mustek color scanner that came with a TWAIN driver. If the > room temperature was above 80 degrees F, it would scan in color - otherwise, > only black & white. I was *sure* it was a hardware problem, but then > someone released a native Linux driver for the scanner. When I moved the > scanner to my Linux box, it worked fine regardless of temperature. >
I would be mind-blown if I did not have the aforementioned too many hours. Sadly, I am merely facepalming. Wow. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list