Document scan in MODI

I was recently asked to make some code in order to “scan documents into Access database”. First idea was to use Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI). But there is no method to start scan process! There is also no way to instantiate MODI Viewer with CreateObject(), so user can press scan button there. Ok, next I found a Microsoft Windows Image Acquisition Library (WMI), which is looks like what I need, but it is too low level for solution I need to build. Ok, I can build my own MSPSCAN.EXE, but this will takes me more number of hours my client expected.

Ilixis Solutions offers some MODI Sample, but there is no demo, and not clear if it offer scan solution.

I think solution can be the following – we can configure MSPSCAN.EXE to save scanned images in a certain directory, start MSPSCAN.EXE with OpenProcess API, when it finish – look for a new file in specified directory and use it as scan result. But what I don’t like here –this solution requires a lot of user interaction, so we can get a lot of support calls and the end.

If  you have better idea on this – please drop me a note here.

One more approach - is to use DBPix ActiveX control from Ammara.com. Control doing everything we need, besides that it does not support TIFF files.