What does the TWAIN Working Group do?

At the recent AIIM International AI+IM Global Summit, we asked the audience if they knew what the TWAIN Working Group does and a majority answered that they did not know, or wanted more information. So we’ve created this short explainer video as a high level overview for our 3 projects of TWAIN Classic, TWAIN Direct and PDF/Raster. 1. TWAIN Classic is a mature specification used for USB document scanners.2. TWAIN…

April 6
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Stargate, DeepSeek and Energy Efficiencies of AI with the TWAIN Working Group

January 30

Last week’s announcement of Stargate—a $500 billion collaboration between SoftBank, Oracle, and OpenAI—got me thinking deeply about something even more critical than the technology itself: the energy required for such massive artificial intelligence projects. This was top of mind even before this week’s announcement of DeepSeek, China’s alternative AI system, and I touched on it during the 1/24/2025 Post & Walters Ask Us Anything live podcast. When asked about my…

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Capture & IDP Conference 2023 – TWAIN Working Group

September 12

It was a great honor for me to represent the @TWAIN Working Group at the Infosource Capture & IDP Conference last week in Chicago. I provided an update to the attendees on “Monetizing TWAIN Direct” with some examples of Use Cases for Generative AI, Conversational AI and Document Processing AI with TWAIN Direct. Then I shared our success with TWAIN Direct Developers Day in Safety Harbor, Florida as well as…

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Layering Security is easy, effective and affordable so there is no excuse for a data breach

December 15

There was a day and age not so long ago that I might have a little compassion for a data breach, but there is ABSOLUTELY no longer any excuse for these sorts of things to happen. From a technological perspective there is no reason why organizations of all sizes can’t easily implement a highly-effective, yet also affordable cyber Layer Security and Bring Your Own Security (BYOS) strategy. Below I will…

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