Document Scanning and Picture Viewing in Vista

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Ray Titus

Didn't there used to be a document scan program in Vista? Or was a function
of Office 2007? I used one to OCR documents. Anyway, I installed a HP AIO
and now the program is gone. Also, there was a Picture Viewer that is also
gone, along with my file association for jpg files. Can I go back to my
original CDs and reinstall them?

Ray Titus
 
There is a Scan & Fax function in VISTA but it only works with scanners
whose software is WIA or WIA2 compatible. Some (especially older)
scanners use TWAIN to talk to the PC and WIA is not compatible with
that.

Using the Office utility you mention, does your scanner now get
recognized and scan as you want?

AMOI which HP scanner is it?
 
It's a HP OfficeJet Pro L7680 AIO. I'm still working on what works and what
doesn't. I didn't know about TWAIN. Does that mean that TWAIN does not work
with Vista? I think I have the option of what to use with the HP scanner. I
also have a Canon 8400F which I've been using with no trouble.

I hesitate to test scanning with different options until I have some time.
The failing HP module requires a reboot if it fails before I can try
scanning again.

Ray
 
Does that mean that TWAIN does not work with Vista?
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No -- I am using TWAIN under VISTA with my HP SJ5P scsi connected
scanner by using the even older HP Deskscan 2.9 (which many of us
preferred to the later software the used Precisionscan (?).

It works fine and all the HP utilities in including the Copier Utility
which is what I mainly use the scanner for works just as it did under
XP and W2K where again I had to use TWAIN because WIA did not recognize
the connection.

What that means is that certain functions that you might say are called
from the VISTA end like the Fax & Scan functions built into VISTA don't
work.

But that does not stop me from pushing scans from the scanner to where
I want, although I've not tried faxing because I have a freestanding
fax machine.

I checked the other day and both Irfanview the Image viewer/editor can
call for a scan and Microsoft WORD 202/XP can scan into a document from
a menu item within WORD. This last surprised me since I didn't try to
get that working!

PS Have you downloaded the Fully Featured VISTA software now on their
web site?

HP Officejet Full Feature software and driver

05-2007 8.0.0 - 312.77M

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?
os=2093&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=2512009&lang=en

Note the other software there including a Network Patch for VISTA if
you are using a Network feature on the AIO and also I'd download the
Software Removal Tool and run that before trying anything further.

Check the Installation instructions for the file you download to
install the software and be certain whether or not you install the
software before the USB connection to the PC is made or if you connect
first. Different models seem to differ on the sequence. If you get it
wrong and VISTA's Found New Hardware pops up cancel it until it stops
rearing its ugly head or it may install a stripped down driver that may
be in VISTA "out of the box".

Hope that helps.
 
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