Re: Adding Scanning Capabilities to a VB.Net App

From: Sueffel (someone_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 02/12/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:30:45 -0500

"Dick Grier" <dick_grierNOSPAM@msn.com> wrote in message
news:e3fTiGN8DHA.1816@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I use a check scanner from Magtek (www.magtek.com), with a serial
interface.
> The actual code to save the image is pretty straight forward. The scanner
> is quick, and not very expensive (IMO). Since the scanner is designed
> specifically for checks, it has built-in decoding features that makes it
> more powerful than one that would use a conventional scanner. My program
> was written using VB .NET and one of my own serial classes (though there
are
> others around that would work equally well).
>
> ***
>
> --
> Richard Grier (Microsoft Visual Basic MVP)
>
> See www.hardandsoftware.net for contact information.
>
> Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, 3rd
> Edition ISBN 1-890422-27-4 (391 pages) published February 2002.
>
>

You may want to check out checkscanners from VisionShape. Thier platform is
built around VB, but it'sstill unmanaged code (VB6). The low-end ones start
about $2,000, be warned.

Sueffel 

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