  CNET GLOSSARY: Terms for the techie
TWAIN
An industry standard software protocol and applications programming interface that allows images to be transferred directly from a scanner or a digital camera into any image-editing program. The word TWAIN was taken from Rudyard Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West": "and never the twain shall meet"; it is not an acronym. 
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