A standard specification for a hand-held scanner programmer interface has been developed by the Scanner Programmer Interface Association, which brings together the likes of Award Software International Inc, Mouse Systems Corp, Media Cybernetics, Corel Systems and Marstek, scanners all, for use by the information industry worldwide: the Standard Programmer Interface specification is intended to facilitate the development and manufacturing of hand-held scanner products and applications by software and hardware companies, and can be used with MS-DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows and Unix; the Los Angeles body will be promoting its standard at Comdex, and claims it has US National Bureau of Standards backing.
