What is the best app to scan a document for C#

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Hi Everyone,

I need to write a .Net application that is capable of scanning documents into my app as an image.

Basically my app needs a button... pressing the button should be able to communicate with the scanner to scan the document and save it somehow and do various other things after it is scanned....

I have look at various examples on the net... some date back to 2002 and some works on some kind of scanners others don't. What is the best free app to interface with a scanner now days. The buyer is not interested in buying any of the shelf product to interface.

Thanks,
Chrispie

Posted 18-Jan-12 2:19am

Chrispie123

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Solution 3

Here is the another best example link
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/yougerthen/integrate-image-scanning-within-a-C-Sharp-application-part-vi/[^]

Thanks
--RA

Posted 1-Feb-12 19:32pm

Rajesh Anuhya

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Feb-12 2:40am

Yes, looks like a good one indeed, a 5.
--SA

Rajesh Anuhya 2-Feb-12 2:40am

Thanks SA
--RA

Solution 2

Helloa,

Thanks a lot for all the info...

In the end I found the following link
.NET TWAIN image scanner[^]
to be the most use full.

I don't understand pointers or how it works but with a little bit of digging you can customize the solution.

Thanks plenty :)

Posted 1-Feb-12 8:32am

Chrispie123

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BillWoodruff 1-Feb-12 19:25pm

See the comments on the article you link to in your Solution 2 here:

1. for getting that very old code to work in Vista/Win7:

http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/3664668/Re-WIA-for-Windows-7.aspx

2. for other discussions of that code:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4335323/how-does-this-code-work-hard

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/274127/wia-twain-support-c-sharp

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-18T14:13:00

Basically, you need to use WIA, please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Image_Acquisition[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_and_Scanner_Interface_Specification[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWAIN[^] (twain is the older standard, still used),
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms630368(VS.85).aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463507.aspx[^].

At the moment of writing, Wikipedia is on blackout, for a really serious reason. Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more[^].

It will resume full operation soon and then you can look up those articles. Hope Wikipedia will be fine, as well as the Internet freedom.

There is a number of CodeProject articles on the topic. As you are interested in C# or .NET solutions, please search:
http://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=%28WIA+OR+TWAIN+OR+ISIS%29+%28%22C%23%22+OR+%22.NET%22%29+%28scanner+OR+scanning+OR+scan%29&doctypeid=1[^].

First of all, pay attention for this one:
WIA Scripting and .NET[^].

Good luck,

—SA