sveijk wrote: > Well here's an update.... > > Copied all the required twain dlls, directories etc to my wine folder... > > Annoyingly wine of course kept on trying to use its native twain via sane support... > In winecfg, "native" means real Windows dlls, and "builtin" refers to Wine's dlls. And since you just referred to Wine's twain as "native," I have to ask this: are you sure you set the override correctly? It may not have been necessary to "forcibly remove" Wine's twain. > However did some digging and discovered that wine-twain is a package. Out of curiosity, what distro are you using? On my system (openSUSE) twain_32.dll.so is part of the regular wine package, not a separate one. > Now to write, or find someone who has written a bit of wrapper software that'll let me use it like a sane devfice, but failing that at least i can now save the images to disk You might want to contact the sane-devel mailing list.