Image Scanners

Classes in the Windows.Devices.Scanners namespace enable apps to initiate scans from a flatbed scanner or one with a document feeder. This support is built on top of Windows Image Acquisition 2.0, which was introduced in the Windows Vista timeframe, so it should work with any scanner with a Windows logo.

In this section, we look at the following tasks:

Getting an instance of ImageScanner

Performing a scan

Configuring scan sources

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