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Dimitris7
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October 20, 2024
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Photoshop TWAIN Scanner

  • October 20, 2024
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Dear All,

I am a new user of Adobe Products

Just buy a subscription of Creative Cloud. 

My question is about Photoshop.
In older versions of Photoshop (for example CS3) you could scan a photo through Photoshop
with the scanner software navigating from File----->Import.
Now in the latest versions of Photoshop this seems isn't supported anymore.
If anyone knows is there any way to use the scanner software through the Photoshop?

Thank you very much!

 

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JR Boulay
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JR BoulayCommunity Expert
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October 20, 2024

I don't know, in any case I guess that TWAIN isn't required to scan directly from a software.

 

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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
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October 20, 2024

OK, understood. In any case, for Photoshop the only options were TWAIN and WIA. The latter is basically useless for scanning images. With very limited options, it's mostly for business documents and such.

JR Boulay
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JR BoulayCommunity Expert
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October 20, 2024

I find it curious that Photoshop has abandoned this option, because it's still possible with Acrobat Pro (File menu : Create : PDF from Scanner).

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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
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October 20, 2024

I don't use Acrobat a lot, but Is that a 32 bit version of Acrobat? There is no 64 bit TWAIN, it was never made. And is it TWAIN at all, or is it something else, like Windows WIA?

D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
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October 20, 2024

TWAIN has been dead for many many years. A 64-bit version was never made.

 

The only thing TWAIN ever did was to call the scanner software from within Photoshop. There wasn't any additional functionality. It might seem like a good idea to scan directly from Photoshop, but in reality it was very buggy and caused a lot of crashing, and that was the main reason Adobe stopped supporting it.

 

In addition, it would lock up Photoshop while the scan was in progress, so you basically had to sit for minutes and watch a green progress bar, without being able to do anything else.

 

For these reasons, the advice was always to just use the standalone scanner software and set it to save to disk as TIFF. The functionality is exactly the same. And that is still the advice today.

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