ISIS

:This article is about the scanning technology. For other meanings see Isis (disambiguation).

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ISIS (Image and Scanner Interface Specification) is an industry standard interface for image scanning technologies. It was developed by Pixel Translations in 1990, and they retain control over development and licensing.

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ISIS can be considered as a "big brother" to the TWAIN standard, which tends to be used on small scanner hardware for home use.

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ISIS compatible scanners typically use a SCSI-2 interface, while TWAIN hardware now mostly uses USB.

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ISIS has a wider feature set than TWAIN, can handle greater speeds, and also handles some aspects of image display and manipulation for the client application.

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Most major scanner manufacturers, including Kodak, Canon, Hewlett-Packard, and Fujitsu use the ISIS interface for their departmental and high-capacity scanner hardware.

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The ISIS architecture is a mutable architecture based on modules—software components that perform specific imaging functions (such as image acquisition, file conversion, data extraction, and file read/write commands). ISIS architecture allows for new modules to be added without making system-wide changes: one simply adds what is needed.

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ISIS modules interact with each other through a system of tags (data storage areas) and choices (value sets). A combination of two or more ISIS modules put together to perform a specific imaging function is called an ISIS pipe. ISIS pipes can be constructed according to each developers specific imaging needs.

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First and foremost in the benefits ISIS delivers to developers is compatibility: ISIS-compatible drivers are available for more than 250 scanner models, most of them certified by Pixel Translations to be compatible with any properly written ISIS application. ISIS' compatibility is further evidenced by its being the basis for the AIIM (The Association for Information and Image Management) MS61 standard since 1996, which is in the public domain.

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SCSI: SCSI stands for "Small Computer System Interface", and is a standard interface and command set for transferring data between devices on both internal and external computer buses. SCSI is pronounced "scuzzy", while occasional attempts to promulgate the more flattering pronunciation "sexy" have never ...

USB: REDIRECT Universal_Serial_Bus...

Kodak: REDIRECT Eastman Kodak...

ISIS related Images and Photos (experimental)

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Isis Impossible Metal Puzzle	Archer ISIS Logo Mousepad	Nefertari and Isis	Naos Chapel Dedicated to the Goddess Isis by Ptolemy VIII from the Temple of Isis at Philae
Statuette of the Goddess Isis and the Child Horus	Hieroglyphic Wall of Temple of Isis Hypaethral Court on Island of Philae in Nile Below Aswan	Triad of Osorkon II: Osiris Flanked by Isis and Horus Third Intermediate Period circa 874-850 BC	Western Colonnadel of the Temple of Isis on Island of Philae in Middle of the Nile Below Aswan