.NET Scanning API for 64bit machine

Question

Is there a .Net scanning API available for 64bit machine to scan document or images from scanner? Can anyone give me sample code for this.

Thanks Asif

Answer 1

We used leadtools sdk for a similar requirement. They do have a 64 bit version, but we actually found that many hardware manufacturers didn’t provide a 64 bit driver. Maybe that has changed since last time we checked. We used this Tutorial to get started.

Answer 2

You most likely have an 'x86' (32-bit) reference in your project, for example DotTwain. 'Any CPU' means that the .NET framework will run it as 'x64' because you've told it anything is OK. Then it tries to load a reference, finds it's 32-bit and gives a 'BadImageFormatException' (usually).