I have a Brother mutlifunction networked printer/scanner/fax (model MFC-9140CDN). I am trying to use the following code with WIA, to retrieve items scanned in with the document feeder:
const int FEEDER = 1;
var manager=new DeviceManager();
var deviceInfo=manager.DeviceInfos.Cast<DeviceInfo>().First();
var device=deviceInfo.Connect();
device.Properties["Pages"].set_Value(1);
device.Properties["Document Handling Select"].set_Value(1);
var morePages=true;
var counter=0;
while (morePages) {
counter++;
var item=device.Items[1];
item.Properties["Bits Per Pixel"].set_Value(1);
item.Properties["Horizontal Resolution"].set_Value(300);
item.Properties["Vertical Resolution"].set_Value(300);
var img=(WIA.ImageFile)item.Transfer();
var path=String.Format(@"C:\Users\user1\Documents\test_{0}.tiff",counter);
img.SaveFile(path);
var status=(int)device.Properties["Document Handling Status"].get_Value();
morePages = (status & FEEDER) > 0;
}
When the Transfer
method is reached for the first time, all the pages go through the document feeder. The first page gets saved with img.SaveFile
to the passed-in path, but all the subsequent pages are not available - device.Items.Count
is 1, and trying device.Items[2]
raises an exception.
In the next iteration, calling Transfer
raises an exception -- understandably, because there are now no pages in the feeder.
How can I get the subsequent images that have been scanned into the feeder?
(N.B. Iterating through all the device properties, there is an additional unnamed property with the id of 38922. I haven't been able to find any reference to this property.)
Update
I couldn't find a property on the device corresponding to WIA_IPS_SCAN_AHEAD or WIA_DPS_SCAN_AHEAD_PAGES, but that makes sense because this property is optional according to the documentation.
I tried using TWAIN (via the NTwain library, which I highly recommend) with the same problem.