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<p class=MsoNormal>Metadata is the descriptive data that accompanies an
image.&nbsp; TWAIN has two primary ways of communicating this information to an
application: DAT_IMAGEINFO and DAT_EXTIMAGEINFO.&nbsp; Since DAT_EXTIMAGEINFO
is extensible it’s the only way to introduce new metadata items to the TWAIN
specification without creating a new DAT operation (and we don’t really need
any more o