[dba-VB] Visual Basic 6.0 Control CardScan Scanner

Paul Hartland paul.hartland at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 30 05:48:36 CDT 2008


Thank you Gustav, just downloaded it so will have a look....

2008/7/30 Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk>

> Hi Paul
>
> Sounds like a job for csXImage which I have recommend several times:
>
>  http://www.chestysoft.com/ximage/default.asp
>
> A fully functional trial is available for download.
>
> Scanners - not to say their buggy drivers - are nasty and unpredictable
> animals, and you will most likely - as I did - need the excellent support
> from Simon Chester. I believe he knows just about anything about scanners
> and their misbehaving.
>
> /gustav
>
> >>> paul.hartland at googlemail.com 30-07-2008 11:56 >>>
>  To all,
>
> We have started scanning personnel photo's onto our employee database, I am
> using Visual Basic 6.0 and the business card scanner CardScan 800c.  It
> works but is a bit clumsy i.e. when we scan a phto the user clicks a button
> which runs a macro to represent the keystrokes etc required by the CardScan
> software to process & save the employee's photo.  The macro works by firing
> events/keystrokes depending on the name of the currently open CardScan
> window, however we now want our European divisions in Belgium & Netherlands
> to do this as well, the problem being that the macro will not recognise the
> window name as it will not be in English.
>
> Has anyone ever worked with CardScan scanning devices, so that perhaps I
> could use some sort of general driver to control the CardScan scanner and
> save the picture.  The closest I have came is using GDTwain, which lets me
> tell the unit to scan and save the picture, but I don't seem to be able to
> control the resolution etc of the photos.
>
> Any help on this will be appreciated, and thank you in advance for any help
> on this....
>
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> Paul Hartland
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>
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