VintaSoftTwain ActiveX Control 5.0

VintaSoftTwain ActiveX Control 5.0 is an attractive and handy application which allows you to add ability to work with scanner or camera from your application with VintaSoftTwain ActiveX. You can fully control an image acquisition process, use an automatic document feeder, clean up images using noise removal, auto border crop, blank page detection, save acquired images to disk or SQL server, upload images onto Web or FTP server.

VintaSoftTwain was tested and has examples of use in: MS VB.NET, MS C#, MS VB 6.0, MS VC++ 6.0, Borland Delphi 7.0, Borland C++ Builder 6.0, Visual FoxPro 8.0, Gupta SQL Windows 3.1, MS Access, VBScript, JavaScript, MS Excel, MS Word, IBM Object Rexx language.

Major Features:  

1. TWAIN specification 2.0 compatible
2. Programming environments: Win32 Visual development environments
3. Uses ATL to guarantee the smallest footprint and does not require MFC
4. Can be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX/COM controls
5. Can be deployed in .NET environment as an un-managed control
6. Digitally signed by certificate from Thawte
7. Acquire images from scanners, web or digital cameras and any other TWAIN devices
8. Data source enumeration and selection
9. Show modal or modeless the data source user interface
10. Control the work of Automatic Document Feeder (ADF)
11. Supports Native, Buffered Memory and Disk File image transfer modes
12. Set up images acquisition parameters (pixel type, resolution, page size, image layout rectangle, brightness, contrast, etc)
13. Control an advanced capabilities of TWAIN devices (rotation of images, scaling of images, filters of images, paper handling, the patch code detection and etc)
14. Image processing: despeckle, deskew, border detection, rotation, blank page detection
15. Save acquired images as BMP, JPEG, TIFF or multi-page TIFF files
16. Save acquired images directly into SQL database
17. Upload acquired images onto HTTP or FTP server

Enhancements:

• ActiveX is compatible with TWAIN 2.0 now.
• Added ability to detect if TWAIN is installed in the system.
• Added ability to specify path to TWAIN Data Source Manager. This feature allows to use library in Citrix systems.
• Added ability to detect if scanner has flatbed.
• All properties begin with the upper letter now. C++ code which uses library must be updated.
• DuplexEnabled property has been optimized for compatibility with Epson GT 2500 scanner.
• New GetPathToTempDir method allows to save acquired image in web applications for preview.
• New ConvertArrayToString method allows to work with COM arrays in JavaScript.
• New GetImageLayoutAsString method allows to get the layout of scanning image in JavaScript.
• Now you can create log-file and send it to our support team if scanner does not work properly.
• Some major and minor fixes.
• Examples have been updated.

Requirements:

• MS Visual Studio 6.0
• Borland Delphi
• Borland C++ Builder
• MS Visual Studio .NET
• MS Office 
• Internet Explorer