Scan&Store Solution

First step was to port the most important parts of TWAIN.H, these are found in TwainDefs.cs. The real logic for calling TWAIN is coded in the class Twain, in file TwainLib.cs.. As the TWAIN API is exposed by the Windows DLL, twain_32.dll, we have to use the .NET DllImport mechanism for interop with legacy code. This DLL has the central DSM_Entry(), ordinal #1 function exported as the entry point to TWAIN. This call has numerous parameters, and the last one is of variable type! It was found to be best if we declare multiple variants of the call like:

 
[DllImport("twain_32.dll", EntryPoint="#1")]
private static extern TwRC DSMparent(
    [In, Out] TwIdentity origin,
    IntPtr zeroptr,
    TwDG dg, TwDAT dat, TwMSG msg,
    ref IntPtr refptr );

The Twain class has a simple 5-step interface:

 class Twain
{
Init();
Select();
Acquire();
PassMessage();
TransferPictures();
}

For some sort of 'callbacks', TWAIN uses special Windows messages, and these must be caught from the application-message-loop. In .NET, the only way found was IMessageFilter.PreFilterMessage(), and this filter has to be activated with a call like Application.AddMessageFilter(). Within the filter method, we have to forward each message to Twain.PassMessage(), and we get a hint (enum TwainCommand) back for how we have to react.

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Kurt Ambrose5y ago
The LEADTOOLS SDK has a WebScanning solution which utilizes a service hosted on the client machine to interact with the TWAIN device that will provide the scanned image to the browser.

For more information please refer to the below link
https://www.leadtools.com/help/sdk/v21/dh/to/web-scanning-framework.html

There is also a live example at the below link

http://demo.leadtools.com/javascript/ScanningDemo/
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Lalit M17y ago
First step was to port the most important parts of TWAIN.H, these are found in TwainDefs.cs. The real logic for calling TWAIN is coded in the class Twain, in file TwainLib.cs.. As the TWAIN API is exposed by the Windows DLL, twain_32.dll, we have to use the .NET DllImport mechanism for interop with legacy code. This DLL has the central DSM_Entry(), ordinal #1 function exported as the entry point to TWAIN. This call has numerous parameters, and the last one is of variable type! It was found to be best if we declare multiple variants of the call like:
[DllImport("twain_32.dll", EntryPoint="#1")] private static extern TwRC DSMparent( [In, Out] TwIdentity origin, IntPtr zeroptr, TwDG dg, TwDAT dat, TwMSG msg, ref IntPtr refptr );
The Twain class has a simple 5-step interface:
```
 class Twain
{
Init();
Select();
Acquire();
PassMessage();
TransferPictures();
}
```
For some sort of 'callbacks', TWAIN uses special Windows messages, and these must be caught from the application-message-loop. In .NET, the only way found was IMessageFilter.PreFilterMessage(), and this filter has to be activated with a call like Application.AddMessageFilter(). Within the filter method, we have to forward each message to Twain.PassMessage(), and we get a hint (enum TwainCommand) back for how we have to react.
you can download code sample just few details register
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