What are the command line options for WIAACMGR.EXE (Scanner and Camera Wizard)?

[maphew]

What are the command line options for WIAACMGR.EXE (Windows Image
Acquisition and Control Manager m, a.k.a. Scanner and Camera Wizard)?

Viewing the properties for the default shortcut shows "...
\system32\wiaacmgr.exe -SelectDevice" implies that there are others.

My end goal is to be able to create a shortcut which starts the scan/
camera wizard with a specific device, and select a default Save To
folder (and perhaps even a default filename).

The same question to Experts Exchange revealed a couple of others
(wiaacmgr.exe -SelectDevice -ShellExecuteEx -Image) are there more?
http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/XP/Q_22389667.html

 

[Wesley Vogel]

As near as I can tell, none of those "switches" does anything other than
what typing wiaacmgr into the Run command does, starts the Scanner and
Camera Wizard.

ShellExecuteEx is Windows shell function. I doubt that it's a switch for
wiaacmgr.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...rence/functions/shellexecuteex.asp?frame=true

C:\os\winxp\system32\wiaacmgr.exe is a very unlikely path.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wiaacmgr.exe or C:\WINNT\system32\wiaacmgr.exe would be
more likely.

I have the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service disabled and use 3rd
party software with my scanner.

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What are the command line options for WIAACMGR.EXE (Windows Image
Acquisition and Control Manager m, a.k.a. Scanner and Camera Wizard)?

Viewing the properties for the default shortcut shows "...
\system32\wiaacmgr.exe -SelectDevice" implies that there are others.

My end goal is to be able to create a shortcut which starts the scan/
camera wizard with a specific device, and select a default Save To
folder (and perhaps even a default filename).

The same question to Experts Exchange revealed a couple of others
(wiaacmgr.exe -SelectDevice -ShellExecuteEx -Image) are there more?

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/XP/Q_22389667.html

 

[maphew]

thanks for the ShellExecute link, maybe something will turn up in
there. As for the command parameters not doing anything -SelectDevice
at least should do something, after all the wizard shows a different
set of options when a usb memory stick is plugged in than when a
scanner is. So *something* is being passed. Maybe it's not via
wiaacmgr though.

what is the 3rd party tool you use?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

what is the 3rd party tool you use?

ScanSoft PaperPort 8.0. It came bundled with my Visioneer OneTouch scanner.
I also used an older version with my old scanner. They are up to version 11
now.

Nuance - Paperport 11
http://www.nuance.com/paperport/

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