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What would be the best plan of attack for accessing the image from a flatbed scanner? (On Windows, but could Linux if necessary)

I don't know of anything Kotlin-specific, but you should be looking for the API standards "TWAIN" or "SANE". Using SANE on Windows is tricky, so I'd stick with TWAIN. There are some third-party Java libraries but I don't think there's a single one that stands out.

So I'm looking for a TWAIN Java library. There seem to be about a dozen of those. How to pick the good one...

half of them seem to ultimately lead to "asprise"'s commercial(?) thing