{"id":13629,"date":"2025-04-06T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/?p=13629"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:11:55","slug":"what-does-the-twain-working-group-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/what-does-the-twain-working-group-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the TWAIN Working Group do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/aiim-international\/\">AIIM International<\/a> 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&#8217;ve created this short explainer video as a high level overview for our 3 projects of TWAIN Classic, TWAIN Direct and PDF\/Raster.<br><br>1. TWAIN Classic is a mature specification used for USB document scanners.<br>2. 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