Had a client today with a scanner issue and this happens.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

This photo perfectly encapsulates TWAIN in a nutshell.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    NAPS2 is great but also incredibly painful

    It has been a long time but I think WIA worked better when I used it

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Didn't you get the memo?

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why is the ghost of Mark Twain haunting your scanner?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    It's an acronym: T.W.A.I.N. (edit: a backconym, as was pointed out - I've also heard that the weird upper case name came first, and the weirder acronym was added later.)

    "Technology without an interesting name."

    And... That's all I remember about it, at the moment.

    Well, also that it broke often, and threw weird errors like the one pictured.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I seem to remember some annoying shit called TWAIN from decades ago, which was always giving me errors and headache. Is that still a thing?

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I always hated "Error: No Error Has Occurred"

    Mainly because it had no button to close or acknowledge, so you had to reset your machine.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    File scanned fine but you forgot the cover sheet.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Yeah. It's just that we're putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports before they go out now. So I'd really appreciate it if you could just remember to do that from now on. That'd be great.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    PC LOAD LETTER!?

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  • What's this I hear about problems with your TPS reports? Didn't you get the memo?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment! Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment! Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    fucking TWAIN drivers were the bane of my existence at one time.

    fucking Windows 98!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    People are worried about the end of Win 10 and this mad lad still uses ancient wizardry

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Must have been an HP scanner/printer.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yay for success, I guess?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    There's no softwaregore community?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Those damn TPS reports and Lumbergh.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I haven't seen a TWAIN error in at least 20 years.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    'Twas a success.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I scrolled back thinking wtf is TAIWAN error 💀

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