I'm working on the same thing, and tried to use your code and code from this example: http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/792316/WIA-Scanner-in-Csharp-Windows-Forms
I tested your code on hp scanjet 5590, it only manages to get one image, even when I step through the code in debugger. On second call dialog.ShowTransfer throws ArgumentException with message "Value does not fall within the expected range." I managed to make it work by resetting 'image' and 'dialog' objects and also setting an explicit transfer format ID. Also your code wrote images to the same file. Here is what worked for me if applied to your code:
WIA.CommonDialog dialog = new WIA.CommonDialog();
WIA.Device device = dialog.ShowSelectDevice(WIA.WiaDeviceType.ScannerDeviceType);
WIA.Items items = dialog.ShowSelectItems(device);
foreach (WIA.Item item in items)
{
while (true)
{
WIA.ImageFile image = null;
try
{
dialog = new WIA.CommonDialog();
image = (WIA.ImageFile)dialog.ShowTransfer(item,"{B96B3CAB-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}", false);
if (image != null && image.FileData != null)
{
dynamic binaryData = image.FileData.get_BinaryData();
if (binaryData is byte[])
using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(binaryData))
using (Bitmap bitmap = (Bitmap) Bitmap.FromStream(stream))
{
bitmap.Save(String.Format(@"C:\Temp\scan{0}.jpg", Path.GetRandomFileName()),
ImageFormat.Jpeg);
}
}
}
catch (COMException)
{
break;
}
finally
{
if (image != null)
Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(image);
}
}
}
That CodeProject example failed on my hardware as well, but the same fixes helped. Try it if the code above still doesn't work for you, replace the original Scan method by this:
public static List<Image> Scan(string scannerId)
{
List<Image> images = new List<Image>();
// select the correct scanner using the provided scannerId parameter
WIA.DeviceManager manager = new WIA.DeviceManager();
WIA.Device device = null;
foreach (WIA.DeviceInfo info in manager.DeviceInfos)
{
if (info.DeviceID == scannerId)
{
// connect to scanner
device = info.Connect();
break;
}
}
// device was not found
if (device == null)
{
// enumerate available devices
string availableDevices = "";
foreach (WIA.DeviceInfo info in manager.DeviceInfos)
{
availableDevices += info.DeviceID + "\n";
}
// show error with available devices
throw new Exception("The device with provided ID could not be found. Available Devices:\n" + availableDevices);
}
WIA.Item item = null;
WIA.CommonDialog dialog = new WIA.CommonDialog();
WIA.Items items = dialog.ShowSelectItems(device);
if (items == null)
return images;
item = items[1];
bool hasMorePages = true;
while (hasMorePages)
{
try
{
// scan image
WIA.ICommonDialog wiaCommonDialog = new WIA.CommonDialog();
WIA.ImageFile image = (WIA.ImageFile)wiaCommonDialog.ShowTransfer(item, wiaFormatBMP, false);
// save to temp file
string fileName = Path.GetTempFileName();
File.Delete(fileName);
image.SaveFile(fileName);
try
{
Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(image);
}
finally
{
image = null;
}
// add file to output list
images.Add(Image.FromFile(fileName));
}
finally
{
//determine if there are any more pages waiting
WIA.Property documentHandlingSelect = null;
WIA.Property documentHandlingStatus = null;
foreach (WIA.Property prop in device.Properties)
{
if (prop.PropertyID == WIA_PROPERTIES.WIA_DPS_DOCUMENT_HANDLING_SELECT)
documentHandlingSelect = prop;
if (prop.PropertyID == WIA_PROPERTIES.WIA_DPS_DOCUMENT_HANDLING_STATUS)
documentHandlingStatus = prop;
}
// assume there are no more pages
hasMorePages = false;
// may not exist on flatbed scanner but required for feeder
if (documentHandlingSelect != null)
{
// check for document feeder
if ((Convert.ToUInt32(documentHandlingSelect.get_Value()) & WIA_DPS_DOCUMENT_HANDLING_SELECT.FEEDER) != 0)
{
hasMorePages = ((Convert.ToUInt32(documentHandlingStatus.get_Value()) & WIA_DPS_DOCUMENT_HANDLING_STATUS.FEED_READY) != 0);
}
}
}
}
return images;
}
Also replace btn_scan_Click method by this:
private void btn_scan_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
//get list of devices available
List<string> devices = WIAScanner.GetDevices();
List<Image> images = null;
//check if device is not available
if (devices.Count == 0)
{
MessageBox.Show("You do not have any WIA devices.");
this.Close();
}
else
{
if (devices.Count == 1)
{
images = WIAScanner.Scan(devices[0]);
}
else
{
images = WIAScanner.Scan();
}
}
//get images from scanner
foreach (Image image in images)
{
var path = String.Format(@"C:\Temp\scan{0}_{1}.jpg", DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HHmmss"), Path.GetRandomFileName());
image.Save(path, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
}
}
catch (Exception exc)
{
MessageBox.Show(exc.Message);
}
}
