TWAIN Working Group Partners with AIIM International

TWAIN Working Group Partners with AIIM International

Not-for-profits join forces to further educate the Information Management community around emerging technologies

Raleigh, NC – June 18, 2024 – The TWAIN Working Group (TWG), a not-for-profit organization providing and fostering a universal public standard for image acquisition devices, announced today that it has joined the AIIM International Leadership Council, and welcomes AIIM as a TWG Liaison Partner. This alliance will empower both organizations to optimize their information management strategies through collaboration, research, and the sharing of best practices with one another for the benefit of the Information Management community.

The AIIM International Leadership Council encourages the development and adoption of cutting-edge information management technologies and practices, while providing a platform for industry leaders to share insights, challenges and solutions. The Council conducts and disseminates research on emerging trends, and advocates for industry standards and policies. AIIM offers a multitude of resources and networking opportunities to support education and career development.

With a long, and successful, history for providing valuable education to Information Management professionals, the AIIM community acts as a trusted advisor for organizations that must deal with many business and technical issues. This new AIIM/TWAIN alliance aligns perfectly in that TWG also fully embraces openness and industry standards supporting several open-source projects including TWAIN Classic, TWAIN Direct and PDF/R. In this new era of Artificial Intelligence and the high interest in organizations creating Large Language Models (LLMs), TWAIN technologies allow for feeding large volumes of clean data, in real-time, from TWAIN data sources whether these are document scanners. mobile phone cameras or even existing file directories. Now, Information Management professionals have a one-stop shop to not only get critically important education and awareness from AIIM, but also learning augmented with TWAIN technologies.

"The relationship with TWAIN Working Group makes a great pairing as we have mutual missions in the sense of driving innovation, advancing knowledge and influencing standards," stated Tori Miller-Liu, President and CEO of AIIM International. "AIIM looks forward to reaching the TWAIN community through partnering activities to be certain TWAIN users and influencers leverage our valuable Intelligent Information educational programs and events."

“We are honored to become part of the AIIM Leadership Council. The Council’s ideas and activities influence the direction of the Information Management Industry”, said Joseph Odore, TWAIN Working Group Board Chairperson. The TWAIN Working Group is confident we can contribute to the betterment of the industry as is our mission through our active participation. We look forward to furthering one another’s messages through joint marketing activities such as podcasts, articles, and active participations in the Data Information Leadership Symposiums.”

About AIIM International

The Association for Intelligent Information Management (AIIM) is dedicated to advancing the information management industry. Since 1944, AIIM has been at the forefront of revolutionizing how organizations leverage information with emerging technologies. AIIM helps organizations manage information with and for artificial intelligence through future-focused and technology-driven certification, education, research, networking, solutions, and support. AIIM represents a global community of information leaders committed to driving better business outcomes through intelligent information management.

About The TWAIN Working Group

The TWAIN Working Group, established in 1992, is a not-for-profit association of industry leaders who have gathered to create a standard that benefits the imaging industry as a whole. TWAIN's purpose is to provide and foster a universal public standard which links applications and image acquisition devices. The ongoing mission of this organization is to continue to enhance the standard to accommodate future technologies. TWAIN generates multiple opportunities for application developers and users to access information and broaden the standard; through a developer’s forum, main website and online self-certification process. Current members of the TWAIN Working Group include ExactCODE GmbH, JSE Imaging Solutions, P3iD Technologies, Inc., PFU America Inc., Kodak Alaris, InoTec – a Datawin GmbH brand, Plustek, Inc., Atalasoft, Microtek, Inc., Dynamsoft, Epson America, Inc., LEAD Technologies and Hewlett Packard, along with Liaison Partners PDF Association and AIIM International. More information about TWG Developers Day participation and sponsorship, PDF/R, the TWAIN Direct API and imaging standards can be obtained at pdfraster.org, twain.org and twaindirect.org.