Comment by tambourine_man

1 day ago

> The official Epson TWAIN driver exists, but it’s a complex plugin designed for Photoshop

I remember there were free TWAIN hosts that allowed you to use scanner plugins without Photoshop. Could be worth a look.

TWAIN was not limited by PhotoShop, native (and naive) MS application "Scan & Fax" supported it too, and many other raster editors and document organizing applications too.

Also, TWAIN is not Windows-specific! It is (was?) supported on Windows, Linux and macOS. It was not invented by MS or Adobe, but by working group where MS and Adobe doesn't present!