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csteinhilber
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Since the scanner and the driver are on the clientside, there won't be a whole lot you can do via ColdFusion (since it's serverside... if you tried connecting to a scanner object with ColdFusion, it'd probably try to connect to something hanging off the server, which isn't what you'd want).
There's a chance you might be able to do something with ActiveX... or find an ActiveX control already that'll allow you to do it.
The one thing you have going for you is most scanners can utilize TWAIN drivers... so there's a better chance that they're standardized enough to where, if someone's written a TWAIN ActiveX control, it just might work for all your clients/users. Hope it helps,
-Carl
There's a chance you might be able to do something with ActiveX... or find an ActiveX control already that'll allow you to do it.
The one thing you have going for you is most scanners can utilize TWAIN drivers... so there's a better chance that they're standardized enough to where, if someone's written a TWAIN ActiveX control, it just might work for all your clients/users. Hope it helps,
-Carl
check out this CF Tag: ActivScan...have no experience with it myself - but really do like their other products...
NoWayIsThisInUse
IS-IT--Management
ActiveScan works great. I have it and it works fine. You pay about $250 and it runs on up to 3 of your IP addresses.
It looks like it's a part of your site.
It looks like it's a part of your site.
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