I used Lead OCX (www.leadtools.com) which had this method (and many others) to work with images and image-producing devices.

>I haven't used any ActiveX in VFP yet. Is the TwainAcquire method used in VFP 5 or in VFP 6. Or is it part of an ActiveX control. If so, what control is it?
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>>>Has anyone done DDE commands to capture the Twain device in Windows for a scanner interface for FoxPro. If so, where is an info. page on this?
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>>>I asked this before and got no answer. Is this even possible.
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>>Did you ask about using Active-X for this purpose? Most of imaging OCXs allow to capture Twain devices (TwainAcquire method).