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How to open Acrobat Pro DC in Scan Mode from VB.NET

Community Beginner ,
May 10, 2019 May 10, 2019

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Our company has upgraded to Acrobat Pro DC from Adobe Pro X and the following line of code no longer functions to open Adobe in Scan mode:

AdobeAcro.MenuItemExecute("Scan")

Can someone direct me to help files for coding with Acrobat Pro DC with VB.NET?  

Thank you,

Anthony

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LEGEND ,
May 10, 2019 May 10, 2019

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Items removed from the menu have no replacement.

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Community Beginner ,
May 10, 2019 May 10, 2019

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This line of code opens an instance of Acrobat in Scan mode.  Is there a way to do that with DC?

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LEGEND ,
May 10, 2019 May 10, 2019

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Pretty sure no. It’s just sheer luck that there was once a menu item that entered scan mode.

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New Here ,
Oct 22, 2020 Oct 22, 2020

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With the Scan menu gone from Acrobat DC why is MenuItemIsEnabled("Scan") still returns a True?

 

A False return value would make more sense since there is no menu item with that name anymore.

 

Regards,

Peter

 

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Community Expert ,
Oct 22, 2020 Oct 22, 2020

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The menu item "Scan" exists in Javascript. It is the name for following entry:

 

File > Create > PDF from Scanner

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New Here ,
Oct 22, 2020 Oct 22, 2020

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Thats good to know. Thank you.

 

But when I call MenuItemExecute("Scan") from a C# app nothing happens except a true return value.

 

When I tried app.listMenuItems() in the JS console I'll get

 

oChildren:[[cName:NewDocFromFile] [cName:Scan] ..

 

so it looks like the scan name is part of NewDocFromFile which would make sense.

 

So the question would be if and how NewDocFromFile and Scan could be used as a single argument for MenuItemExecute().

 

Regards,

Peter

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Oct 22, 2020 Oct 22, 2020

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When you execute
app.execMenuItem("Scan");
in the Javascript console you will get this:

Bild1.jpg

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For some reasons this does not work from a language like C#. But I will give it another try. But thanks for trying this out (I was just about to try this myself;)

 

Regards,

Peter

 

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Community Beginner ,
May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019

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So the company has moved to DC from X and our application with X opened Adobe ready to scan.  Are you saying that this method was never intended to be included in X or that it was an accident? 

Is there documentation on how to code for DC in .NET code?  Would you send me more information so I can work on a solution?

Thank  you,

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LEGEND ,
May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019

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The Acrobat SDK contains supported interfaces. There isn’t one to do this. Notice that you were executing a menu item - it was never a special function to enter scanning from your app. There just happened to be a Scan menu item, which you found useful. Now notice most menus are removed in DC. That’s why it no longer works.

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Community Beginner ,
May 31, 2019 May 31, 2019

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I now have DC installed on my machine so I can actively work with it.  I see that the menu items are gone and I understand that my code as it worked with X will not work with DC.  I am trying now to open DC from my application so that it is connected to my application so when a file is scanned through the DC interface it will be stored in my system.  Does this make sense?  

This was my code:

           Dim sPDFFileName As String = Path.GetTempFileName.ToLower.Replace(".tmp", ".pdf")

            AdobeAcro.MenuItemExecute("Scan")

            AVDoc = CType(AdobeAcro.GetActiveDoc, Acrobat.AcroAVDoc)

            If AVDoc IsNot Nothing Then

                If AVDoc.IsValid Then

                    'continue

                    PDDoc = CType(AVDoc.GetPDDoc, Acrobat.AcroPDDoc)

                    m_PDFPageNumbers = PDDoc.GetNumPages

                    PDDoc.Save(1, sPDFFileName)

                    PDDoc.Close()

                End If

                AVDoc.Close(CInt(True))

            End If

            AdobeAcro.CloseAllDocs()

            AdobeAcro.Exit()

            KillAdobe()

            If File.Exists(sPDFFileName) Then

                'open it for editing

                Dim pInfo As New ProcessStartInfo

                'Start the correct version of acrobat from the existing path

                pInfo.FileName = StartUp.DetectAcrobat

                pInfo.Arguments = "/A ""zoom=45&pagemode=thumbs"" """ & sPDFFileName & """"

                launchProcess = New Process

                launchProcess = Process.Start(pInfo)

                launchProcess.WaitForExit()

                ' Other processing before returning sPDFFileName to the calling object.

            End If

So, I wonder if I can open DC from my application in a similar fashion so whatever is scanned is returned to my application.

Thank you,

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 04, 2019 Jun 04, 2019

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Is there a way to open an instance of Acrobat DC from a .NET application with the intention of scanning a document and saving said document to the .NET application?   The idea is to keep the scanning within our application, but use Acrobat as the scan tool.

Thank you

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Adobe Employee ,
Jun 04, 2019 Jun 04, 2019

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No.

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Jun 06, 2019 Jun 06, 2019

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Does the SDK and all the tools come with the purchase of Acrobat DC Pro?  I would like to investigate using Windows IAC to get the functionality that we are looking for.  Is it possible to use that to run Adobe from within our VB.NET windows form application to scan, edit, view PDFs?

Thank you

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Community Expert ,
Jun 06, 2019 Jun 06, 2019

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You can find the SDK here:

Acrobat DC SDK Documentation

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LEGEND ,
Jun 06, 2019 Jun 06, 2019

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the SDK is free to download. There are no tools that I can think of.

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