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Imaging Device and Webcam 
last modified by Victor Zhang
on 00:20, 22/07/2020

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•	As the recent need for remote learning, trying to setup stream hardware
•	ITS has Doc Cam hardware however the driver they provide here: https://www.elmoeurope.com/index.php/en/download-service/software installs the device as "Imaging devices" which is somehow different from "Cameras" ( from device manager)
•	TWAIN is also used by scanner so understand why it does make sense for Chat apps not supporting it
•	But why do real-time doc cam register as TWAIN instead of Cameras
•	It doesn't provide better quality
•	Speculations:
•	YUV format?
•	FPS?
•	Irregular resolution?
•	PS Eye driver written by this company https://codelaboratories.com/products/eye/driver/
•	Archive (link : https://archive.org/download/CLEyeDriver5.3.0.0341Emuline/CL-Eye-Driver-5.3.0.0341-Emuline.exe)[download alt]
•	Also registers as "Imaging devices" thus meaning can't be used by most of the windows apps
•	Making a TWAIN to Camera bridge
•	Does it worth the effort?
•	As newer devices(even doc cams) supports UVC driver
•	If as a hobby project, what's the effort
•	Device driver
•	Bridging service
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