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Legend has it that the word, “Twain” comes from Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.” The Ballad of East and West, 1889

Set up the scanner Setting up a scanner is very simple with Windows Vista: plug it in and turn it on. Most of today’s scanners use USB connections.   Older scanners often used SCSI connectors. It is exceedingly difficult to find the unique hardware drivers for the old equipment. The hardware may still function, but there are no drivers that will work with the new versions of Windows. Scanners capture an image. Software then acquires the image and allows you to enhance, crop and save the image. The technical term for this intermediary software is called TWAIN drivers. The twain driver is the connection between the scanner hardware and a graphics program.