Open Dental Forum

I got a new MD-960U camera and installed the drivers and it works with OpenDental images as a twain driver. But I can only take one photo at a time and than I have to go back to the computer. Has anyone developed or found a way to take multiple images and store them in OpenDental at a time--each time I hit the capture button? I searched the threads but I never did get a clear answer on this issue.Thanks

You should be taking pics in your imaging software, not directly into OD. Then you should be able to take more than 1 at a time and it is stored just like xrays.

I have patterson imaging and that crashes while trying to use the camera as a twain source.

Of course because Patterson crashes if you look at it the wrong way. I dont believe OD will do more than 1 at a time.

Hey whats up.. Yeah we cannot do multipage twain with Open Dental and the Empia twain driver unless the developers modify the code that allows multipage to show a Scanner UI.... Or you could try Multi-Page Scanning, but you can't see what you are shooting. Because the scanner interface does NOT show the preview of the camera which is part of the Scanner UI.

I cannot add that request, but I have been thinking of attempting to create a plugin that will modify Open Dental to work this way, without the developers adding it (which I think they should, when they get the time).

So.....

It's either this or use X-Ray software to take the image.

I can compile Open Dental to work this way, but it won't have ADA forms built in.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5421

I mention it here... It is a very small code change.. but it could affect how current scanners with document feeders perform. So it should be tested, and that is why they are hesistant to make the change. IF they do make the change, I have no need to make an Open Dental Plugin.
Before:
EZTwain.SetHideUI(!ComputerPrefs.LocalComputer.ScanDocShowOptions);

After:
//EZTwain.SetHideUI(!ComputerPrefs.LocalComputer.ScanDocShowOptions);

Hmm if this is a permission in the database, and it is boolean.. Then maybe we can just change the computer preference in the mysql database, while setting the OD to use Automatic Document Feeder...

I will try later.

Duplicate Post...

Okay.....

If you tell the Scanner UI Window to show, and choose MultiPage Document Scan, then you should get Multi-Page PDF's

Otherwise chose Scan Picture to scan in a single JPG.

For Empia 2860 Chip's only.

MD960U MD830UF BestCam Probably a Claris i4d.. maybe

No recompiling, or plugins required!