March 2013 - ByteScout

March 2013

Getting Images from Scanner, Web Camera or from Other Still Imaging Devices using WIA
A lot of our customers asking us about a way to acquire images from a scanner and other imaging devices. There are 2 ways to acquire an image in Windows: via TWAIN interface (used since 1992); via WIA (currently is recommended by Microsoft over TWAIN/STI because of better user experience) To acquire images using TWAIN we have an open-source SDK called Bytescout Scan SDK which is available for free download at http://bytescoutscansdk.codeplex.com/ Scan SDK is free for [...]