Perl Development

For developers using Perl, the DTWAIN32.PL and DTWAIN32U.PL files contains constants and functional definitions for the DTWAIN library.  The following small example demonstrates acquiring an image from a TWAIN device and saving to a BMP file:

Example

Since there are multiple ways that Perl allows constants to be defined, it is recommended that the Perl programmer copies the definitions from the DTWAIN32*.PL file and use them within the their program.  In addition, the DTWAIN32*.PL files assumes that the Win32::API Perl package is available.