Were's the Twain?

[zaphodeist]

Don't know whether this is suitable for you - Dmitry Malutin's Microscan http://www.xaraxone.com/html/shareware.html [scroll down a bit to find it]. Long time since I used it as I rarely need to scan so can't guarantee how it works on more modern systems

[bcire68]

As an added bit of trivia with relevance to this particular thread...

Lexmark scanners allow you to chose additional programs that you can have your scans appear in. With that function, I can scan directly to XDP X9, which saves a step anyway.

I hope that helps,
Eric

[steve.ledger]

Yes, you're right Eric, I'd forgotten about the option to launch an application.
This of course is an automated extension of the scan to clipboard function.

[mwenz]

Microsoft removed/no longer supports twain in 64-bit applications/OS. If Xara added support, it would be to the 32-bit versions of Xara applications. Which means for all of y'all using 64-bit Xara applications you would need, in essence, a second application (the 32-bit version) with which to scan into. Many/most scanner manufacturers don't have 64-bit versions of their drivers.

I use VueScan. Look it up.

Take care, Mike

[slavelle]

You know - it's a convenience thing. Corel Draw has an Acquire, as does Draw Plus, Photoshop and many others. We use it here to scan checks and contracts and such directly into QuickBooks. Of course we could go to another program and save a document then go back to QB then import that document as an attachment, but just clicking Scan and then gong through the normal scan steps is a LOT faster and much more convenient. It doesn't have any "programming" for the scanning function built into QuickBooks, just a call to the canner driver application. The rest is magic.

Personally, I couldn't care less about the feature since I don't have a scanner on my system and I mostly don't need the function, but I can understand why people would have the request.

[tonylondon]

Don't know whether this is suitable for you - Dmitry Malutin's Microscan http://www.xaraxone.com/html/shareware.html [scroll down a bit to find it]. Long time since I used it as I rarely need to scan so can't guarantee how it works on more modern systems

Good advice. I can't find any option on my scanner to scan to clipboard but I have found Microscan and that seems to work fine. Thanks
(Just hope I remember where it is next time it is needed!)

[Big Frank]

You know - it's a convenience thing. Corel Draw has an Acquire, as does Draw Plus, Photoshop and many others.

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/...p-cs4-cs5.html