Good overview of scanners, TWAIN, etc. ?

I hate the ScanGear software that comes with my Canon Pixma. It's UI
is a veritable catalog of What Not To Do.

I thought that the TWAIN standard interface would allow me to find a
better software interface, but I clearly do not understand how the
whole thing works.

Please suggest a site where I can find a clear explanation for what
TWAIN is, how it relates to scanner data, and specifically how to make
the Pixma hardware use what I want it to use.

Thanks

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I hate the ScanGear software that comes with my Canon Pixma. It's UI
is a veritable catalog of What Not To Do.

I thought that the TWAIN standard interface would allow me to find a
better software interface, but I clearly do not understand how the
whole thing works.

Please suggest a site where I can find a clear explanation for what
TWAIN is, how it relates to scanner data, and specifically how to make
the Pixma hardware use what I want it to use.

Thanks

First, you'll do better on comp.periphs.scanners.
That's a mainstream group, this isn't.

TWAIN simply allows your scanner software to interact inside other
programs, like scanning into a word processor, for example.
It still uses the same installed scanning software.
Since there aren't but a very few third party scanning softwares, you
generally have to use whatever the scanning manufacturer wrote that came
with your scanner.

MM