Twain.Wia.Sane.Scanner 1.0.0

.NET Document Scanner for TWAIN, WIA, SANE, ICA, and eSCL

The package provides methods for calling Dynamsoft Service REST APIs. This allows developers to build .NET applications for digitizing documents from TWAIN (32-bit/64-bit), WIA, SANE, ICA and eSCL scanners.

Prerequisites

1. Install Dynamsoft Service.

   • Windows: Dynamsoft-Service-Setup.msi
   • macOS: Dynamsoft-Service-Setup.pkg
   • Linux:
     • Dynamsoft-Service-Setup.deb
     • Dynamsoft-Service-Setup-arm64.deb
     • Dynamsoft-Service-Setup-mips64el.deb
     • Dynamsoft-Service-Setup.rpm

2. Request a free trial license.

Dynamsoft Service REST API

By default, the REST API's host address is set to http://127.0.0.1:18622.

You can navigate to http://127.0.0.1:18625/ to access the service. To make it accessible from desktop, mobile, and web applications on the same network, you can change the host address to a LAN IP address. For example, you might use http://192.168.8.72.

The scanner parameter configuration is based on Dynamsoft Web TWAIN documentation.

Quick Start

Replace the license key in the code below with a valid one and run the code.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Twain.Wia.Sane.Scanner;

public class Program
{
    private static string licenseKey = "LICENSE-KEY";
    private static ScannerController scannerController = new ScannerController();
    private static List<Dictionary<string, object>> devices = new List<Dictionary<string, object>>();
    private static string host = "http://127.0.0.1:18622";
    private static string questions = @"
Please select an operation:
1. Get scanners
2. Acquire documents by scanner index
3. Quit
";

    public static async Task Main()
    {
        await AskQuestion();
    }

    private static async Task<int> AskQuestion()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(".............................................");
            Console.WriteLine(questions);
            string? answer = Console.ReadLine();

            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(answer))
            {
                continue;
            }

            if (answer == "3")
            {
                break;
            }
            else if (answer == "1")
            {
                var scanners = await scannerController.GetDevices(host, ScannerType.TWAINSCANNER | ScannerType.TWAINX64SCANNER);
                devices.Clear();
                for (int i = 0; i < scanners.Count; i++)
                {
                    var scanner = scanners[i];
                    devices.Add(scanner);
                    Console.WriteLine($"\nIndex: {i}, Name: {scanner["name"]}");
                }
            }
            else if (answer == "2")
            {
                if (devices.Count == 0)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Please get scanners first!\n");
                    continue;
                }

                Console.Write($"\nSelect an index (<= {devices.Count - 1}): ");
                int index;
                if (!int.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out index))
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Invalid input. Please enter a number.");
                    continue;
                }

                if (index < 0 || index >= devices.Count)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("It is out of range.");
                    continue;
                }

                var parameters = new Dictionary<string, object>
                {
                    {"license", licenseKey},
                    {"device", devices[index]["device"]}
                };

                parameters["config"] = new Dictionary<string, object>
                {
                    {"IfShowUI", false},
                    {"PixelType", 2},
                    {"Resolution", 200},
                    {"IfFeederEnabled", false},
                    {"IfDuplexEnabled", false}
                };

                string jobId = await scannerController.ScanDocument(host, parameters);

                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(jobId))
                {
                    var images = await scannerController.GetImageFiles(host, jobId, "./");
                    for (int i = 0; i < images.Count; i++)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine($"Image {i}: {images[i]}");
                    }

                    scannerController.DeleteJob(host, jobId);
                }
            }
            else
            {
                continue;
            }
        }
        return 0;
    }
}

Example

• command-line

• .NET MAUI

• WinForm

API

• public async Task<List<Dictionary<string, object>>> GetDevices(string host, int? scannerType = null): Get a list of available devices.
• public async Task<string> ScanDocument(string host, Dictionary<string, object> parameters): Scan a document.
• public async void DeleteJob(string host, string jobId): Delete a job.
• public async Task<string> GetImageFile(string host, string jobId, string directory): Get an image file.
• public async Task<List<string>> GetImageFiles(string host, string jobId, string directory): Get a list of image files.
• public List<byte[]> GetImageStreams(string host, string jobId): Get a list of image streams.