Scanner Update

I tried the solution suggested in this thread. HOW TO RETRIEVE INSTALLED SCANNER

I did the following:

Downloaded wiaaut.dll

Copied it to system32

Registered it with "regsvr32 wiaaut.dll" (successfully)

Added a reference to wiaaut.dll to my project in Visual Studio.NET

Checked that the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service is running

Next, I added and debugged the following code:

WIA.DeviceManager manager = new WIA.DeviceManagerClass();
WIA.DeviceManagerClass managerClass = new WIA.DeviceManagerClass();

string wdeviceName = "";
foreach (WIA.DeviceInfo info in manager.DeviceInfos)
{
 if (info.Type == WIA.WiaDeviceType.ScannerDeviceType)
 {
  foreach (WIA.Property p in info.Properties)
  {
   if (p.Name == "Name")
   {
    wdeviceName = ((WIA.IProperty)p).get_Value().ToString();
    Console.WriteLine(wdeviceName);
   }
  }
 }
}

However, the manager.DeviceInfos is always empty. I have 2 scanners attached, one of them shows in Control Panel->Scanners and Cameras, one doesn't, and both show under "Imaging Devices" in Device manager.

At this point, the only idea I have is that the scanner drivers just do not support WIA. As long as I have no way to check if this is true or not, I'll have to stick to the yesterday's solution.

by Evgeny. Also posted on my website