Image scanning

[colins5286]

I have a customer database and would like to link files to each record. I can do this using hyperlinks. My aim though is to open the record and click a button, this would then capture an image from my scanner, save it to a pre-defined location and log update the attachments field.

I have been looking into the Windows Image Aquisition functions but cant seem to get them working yet.

Dim commondialog1 As Object
Dim img As ImageFile
Set commondialog1 = CreateObject("wia.commondialog")
Set img = commondialog1.ShowAcquireImage
img.SaveFile ("c:\test.jpg")

Using this I get an error saying no WIA device of this type is available.

 

[Access_guy49]

I don't know much about the WIA function, but i did read a little into this

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms630826#SharedSample001

There is a part where they process images.. which i guess is all well and good but in another part they have a "Take Picture" example. I believe this is for a camera, but i think you would be able to alter the settings to use a scanner instead.

it might be worth a look

 

[Max D]

We have developed the component for images, that allows to scan right to database in one click - beside other functionality.

Download sample database to test scanning - http://access.bukrek.net/tutorial/ms-access-sample-database