Editing TWAIN (section)

== History ==

The design of TWAIN began in January 1991. The TWAIN group was originally launched in 1992 by several members of the imaging industry, with the intention of standardizing communication between image handling software and hardware.<ref>[https://twain.org/about/ TWAIN Initiative]</ref> Review of the original TWAIN Developer's Toolkit occurred from April, 1991 through January, 1992.<ref>[http://www.twain.org/docs/?M=A TWAIN docs index] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927212506/http://www.twain.org/docs/?M=A |date=September 27, 2011 }}</ref>

On September 19, 2019, the TWAIN Working Group announced TWAIN Direct 1.0 which is a RESTful API version of the TWAIN specification.<ref>[https://twain.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/TWAIN-Direct-Press-Release-9419.pdf TWAIN Direct RESTful API introduction]</ref>