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Chronology of Significant  Events

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Chronology of Significant   Events

December 13, 2000
Updated and posted the TWAIN whitepaper.

August 10, 2000
Press Release (July 17, 2000): Digimarc MediaBridge Technology Now Enabled for Use with Digital Scanning Devices

May 10, 2000
Press Release (May 10, 2000): TWAIN Announces Over 2500 Developer Downloads of New Version of Industry Standard for Macintosh Platform.

May 3, 2000
Press Release (May 5, 2000): Kodak Document Imaging Announces Availability of TWAIN Data Source for High Volume Scanners

Press Release (March 27, 2000): Software, Inc., In Cooperation With The TWAIN Working Group, To Exhibit Quillix at AIIM Show in New York

Posted AIIM 2000 presentation.

Posted the following links to drivers: Vidar Systems, Primax, Plustek, Panasonic, Genius, Microtek, Minolta, Storm Technologies, Visioneer.

Posted Our Privacy Statement.

April 4, 2000
Version 1.9 enables developers to use TWAIN's functionality in the Macintosh Platform.

March 15, 2000
Posted version 1.9 twain.h file.

March 7, 2000
Posted Digimarc and TWAIN announcement of new version of industry standard Macintosh platform.

February 22, 2000
Posted version 1.9 of the TWAIN Specification.

February 17, 2000
Posted the Test Recommendation Document for Data Sources, Version 1.8 document (Ratified: January 2000).

February 3, 2000
New Mac DSM made available.

December 13, 1999
New 32bit Data Source Manager which includes Windows NT NTFS security fixes made available.

October 7, 1999
Beta version of the new Mac DSM released.

June 9, 1999
Posted TWAIN Application Test Recommendation document.

May 4, 1999
Posted latest White Papers: TWAIN as an API for High Throughput Image Capture, Capability Ordering , and TWAIN Mandatory Features.   Posted AIIM '99 presentation.

March 15, 1999
Posted updated TWAIN 1.8 specification.

February 26, 1999
Published the EZTWAIN Toolkit page providing details on downloading EZTWAIN.

February 18, 1999
Posted revised versions of the toolkit and the 16 and 32 bit dsm and localized dsm files (these files have been updated with a certification feature). Also posted an updated copy of the MAC toolkit. See the Downloads page.

February 11, 1999
Posted updated copy of  Version 1.8 of the TWAIN Specification.

January 21, 1999
Posted archive files on the Downloads page.

January 14, 1999
Posted version 1.7.0.3 of the TWAIN Toolkit and an updated version of the TWAIN.H file.

December 23, 1998
Posted the version 1.7 TWAIN Toolkit.

December 19, 1998
Posted addendum to the Test Recommendations document.

December 16, 1998
A very PRELIMINARY draft of the TWAIN 1.9 Spec (revised: 12/14/98, 140kb) is available for review and comment. (This document is a rough draft subject to changes and is being issued at this time for review only.  Please send your comments to: twain-wg@twain.org.)

October 1998
Kodak Document Imaging Announces Availability of TWAIN Datasource for the Kodak Digital Science Scanner 3500 - Announcement Demonstrates Kodak's Renewed Commitment To Twain Working Group.

October 27, 1998
Version 1.8 of the TWAIN Specification has been ratified and is available.

October 21, 1998
Added the latest PRELIMINARY version of the 1.8 Specification.

October 20, 1998
Added the latest header file: TWAIN.H

September 14, 1998
Published the TWAIN Year 2000 Compliance Statement.  Published the TWAIN/Microsoft Positioning Statement.  Published the Drivers page.

September 2, 1998
Added a search engine to the site.

August 5, 1998
Posted Twacker ( a sample program that demonstrates TWAIN).

July 27, 1998
Added reference to and location for downloading EZTWAIN toolkit.

July 18, 1998
A very preliminary draft of the TWAIN 1.8 Spec (revised: 7/15/98) is available for review and comment. (This document is a rough draft subject to changes and is being issued at this time for review only.  Please send your comments to: twain-wg@twain.org.)

July 13, 1998
Published new Press Release: Xerox Accepts Seat on TWAIN Board of Directors.

June 19, 1998
A very preliminary draft of the TWAIN 1.8 Spec (revised: 6/19/98) is available for review and comment. (This document is a rough draft subject to changes and is being issued at this time for review only.  Please send your comments to: twain-wg@twain.org.)

May 14, 1998
Published new Press Release: TWAIN Data Source Manager Selected by Microsoft® for Inclusion in Microsoft® Windows ’98® and Microsoft® Windows NT® 5.0.

May 7, 1998
Refreshed and republished the new TWAIN Web site.

September 16, 1997
Published the TWAIN 1.7 Specification .

March 6, 1997
Put up a new TWAIN.H that adds some missing declarations.

January 22, 1997
Received new version (uncorrupted) of 16-bit MSVCRT20.DLL, and replaced the corrupted file on the toolkit page. Put up the presentation done for 96 COMDEX meeting.

December 23, 1996
Created frame-based version of TWAIN website. Added this What's New section.