create scanner action

Question

I am trying to reduce the number of steps required to scan, but actions dont seem to work right.

create new action "scan grayscale"

record menu item "WIA support"

double-click that and go through the details:

- first page - an image folder is there, and it asks whether to use a dated subfolder

- second page - select (the only available) scanner

- third page - choose grayscale and click "scan"

Now, when I play the action, I will go through these same three pages rather than starting the scan right away.

Mylenium · Accepted Answer

The action probably works right. All those panels are produced by your scanner driver via the Windows WIA API and are beyond PS's control. if your scanner doesn't support an alternate "advanced" mode or has a legacy TWAIN-compatible mode, it is unlikely you wil lfind any way to suppress those dialogs. It's just how WIA works.

Mylenium

JJMack · Answer

Not all Photoshop feature have Action support programmed in where they will record the setting used in their dialog while you are recording an action step. Features like WIA scanning is an interactive process that has several dialogs that must be use to select which scanner and to set options for the scanner then start the scan. WIA does have some Action support some settings are recorded into the action step being recorded for the first WIA Dialog the step should start in the interactive start scan dialog where you select the scanner.

Some feature that do support Action Recording can be made interactive in an action the inserting the menu item in the action rather then recording the actual feature in a step.

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