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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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you push the front button on the Epson Perfection scanner, for example, the

Epson software loads, ready to start scanning (see Figure 26-17).

Figure 26-17 Epson software

You can also open your favorite image-editing software first and choose to

acquire a file from a scanner. Figure 26-18 shows the process of acquiring an

image from a scanner in the popular free image-editing software, GNU Image

Manipulation Program (otherwise known as GIMP). As in most such

software, you choose File | Create and then select Scanner. In this case, the

scanner uses the traditional TWAIN drivers. TWAIN stands for Technology

Without an Interesting Name—I’m not making this up!—and has been the

default driver type for scanners for a long time.

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