Question Talking with a scanner...TWAIN, WIA, ???

[Robert_Zenz]

Good day everyone.

First of all, I don't know if I've hit the right section, so sorry if not.

My question is: What's the best way to access a scanner from VB.NET?

I already tried WIA, but the list of compatible scanners is (hopefully) a joke (http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;264598&x=23&y=14). Even with WIA-Drivers, I wasn't able to access my scanner (Canoscan LiDE 20) (ConnectStatus = "not supported"). And now would be the question if the showed devices in the list, are really the only compatible?

My second try would be TWAIN, but I can't find any tutorial or documentation that can simply tell me how to implent it into VB.NET.

Or is there maybe another way?

Thankful for any help on this,
Bobby

 

[new2dotnet]

Bobby,

There's a ton of information available...or at least there appeared to be when I typed twain visual basic .net into google. For example:

http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vbide/thread/897e1a4c-d7af-4ab3-82a3-c442d94152ea/

Chad