This dialog allows you to acquire an image from your scanner or camera through the TWAIN interface. You can also perform image cropping, image flipping, or image rotation with this dialog.

Buttons

Select Source - This button lets you choose the scanner or camera for acquiring the image.

Acquire Image - After the the source has been selected, this button will initiate the actual process of image acquisition. For scanners, this will usually take some time for the whole document to be fully scanned.

Display Crop Tool - This button will toggle the crop tool on or off.

Crop - Clicking this button will crop the image to the selected area in the crop rectangle.

Restore Image - Clicking this button will restore the image to its original state before cropping. It is enabled only after cropping has occurred.

Rotate - This button will rotate the image 90 degree counter-clockwise.

Flip Horizontal - This button will flip the image horizontally.

Flip Vertical - This button will flip the image vertically.

Select Source - This menu item lets you choose the scanner or camera for acquiring the image.

Acquire - This menu item will initiate the actual process of image acquisition.

Open - This menu item will allow you to select an image file into the Acquire Image Dialog. You may then apply the operations of flipping, rotatiion or cropping to the chosen image.

Save - This menu item will allow you to save the current image in the Acquire Image Dialog to a bitmap file.

Remarks

All images that have been flipped, rotated, or cropped by the Acquire Image Dialog will be converted into a raster file. This means that if the orginal image is a vector-based image such as a metafile (*.emf or *.wmf), it will be converted into raster after processing by the Acquire Image Dialog.