EPSON PERFECTION 2480 PHOTO - OCX/DLL for VB

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Hi there, to any one

I'm developing a small program in Visual BASIC 6, to manage and control my
collection of post-cards of ships.

I own an EPSON 2840 Photo Scanner, and I was planing to use it to scan my
postcards to store them in my program.

The problem is: I don't want to use its interface or any photo application
(such Photoshop) but rather I perfer to use my program to do that. Does any
one nows of any OCX, DLL or ActiveX control that I can link with my program
in order to interface with the scanner so that I can use my program to
directly scan the postcard and store it in the program (bare in mind that
when I mean store is not within the executable but in a folder).

In other words, I want to have full control of the scanner without using its
software or any photo-application.

I'm willing to by it.

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Thanks
 
I'm developing a small program in Visual BASIC 6, to manage and control my
collection of post-cards of ships.

I own an EPSON 2840 Photo Scanner, and I was planing to use it to scan my
postcards to store them in my program.

The problem is: I don't want to use its interface or any photo application
(such Photoshop) but rather I perfer to use my program to do that. Does any
one nows of any OCX, DLL or ActiveX control that I can link with my program
in order to interface with the scanner so that I can use my program to
directly scan the postcard and store it in the program (bare in mind that
when I mean store is not within the executable but in a folder).

In other words, I want to have full control of the scanner without using its
software or any photo-application.
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What you're looking for is TWAIN (see http://www.twain.org/ for more,
but it gets very technical). It's a standard way of interfacing with
imaging devices.

In terms of OCX, on my system here I have one by Kodak called
IMGSCAN.OCX officially described in Project/Components as "Kodak Image
Scan Control". However, it works with all TWAIN devices installed on
my system (flatbed scanner, film scanner, various digicams, etc). I
don't know who or what put it there, but it provides only a very basic
scanner support.

It's far better to directly access the TWAIN module supplied by your
scanner manufacturer. The drawbacks are that you will probably need
the SDK (software developer kit) to make full use of it and the
interface is usually geared towards C which means having to write
"wrapper code" so VB can talk to it. On the plus side you will then
also be able to use additional features unique to your scanner which
may not be a part of standard TWAIN specifications.

Don.
 
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In terms of OCX, on my system here I have one by Kodak called
IMGSCAN.OCX officially described in Project/Components as "Kodak Image
Scan Control". However, it works with all TWAIN devices installed on
my system (flatbed scanner, film scanner, various digicams, etc). I
don't know who or what put it there, but it provides only a very basic
scanner support.
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Many versions of MS Wiondows have the Kodak imaging software included -
possibly as a part of the basic Fax software that comes with most versions
of Windows.
 
Many versions of MS Wiondows have the Kodak imaging software included -
possibly as a part of the basic Fax software that comes with most versions
of Windows.
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I'm still running W98. I wasn't sure who put this OCX there because my
first digicam was a Kodak (260) so I thought it might have been a part
of that installation.

Don.
 
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