SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERFACING WITH MULTIPLE PRODUCTION SCANNERS

摘要

A system and method for interfacing with production scanners is disclose d. A driver is provided which enables real-time communications between a scanni ng application and scanner devices. The driver includes an application program interface which is coupled with one or more personality modules, one for eac h scanner device. The personality module facilitates the command and control o f a particular scanner device. The application program interface can communicate with more than one personality module at any given time to enable parallel simultaneous operation of multiple scanner devices. The driver delivers resultant image data from the scans to a commonly accessible buffer where the scanning application can asynchronously retrieve it.