I'm making an app that takes NSData (of a file) and displays it in a WebView (with the appropriate mime type). I would also like to use a printer/scanner to insert the data. How can I get the scanner to work with my app? I've down a lot of research, but there doesn't seem to be much internet resource. I think I would need an IKScannerDeviceView, but I'm not sure. I would like to just connect to a scanner, scan a document in it, then get the scanned document and save it as an NSData object. Is there any way to do this? I would really like some help, and please don't hate on me if I'm missing something obvious. I'm a noob (FYI).
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Seems pretty straightforward? Set the transfer mode to `IKScannerDeviceViewTransferModeMemoryBased`, implement the delegate and [this](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Quartz/Reference/IKScannerDeviceViewDelegate_Protocol/index.html#//apple_ref/occ/intfm/IKScannerDeviceViewDelegate/scannerDeviceView:didScanToURL:fileData:error:) method and you should be good to go. At least that's what I'm gathering from the docs, what exactly doesn't work? – JustSid May 15 '15 at 02:13
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You can get available scanners via the `ICDeviceBrowser` class if that is the issue, `ICDeviceLocationTypeMaskLocal | ICDeviceLocationTypeMaskRemote | ICDeviceTypeMaskScanner` would be an appropriate mask to fetch scanners. – JustSid May 15 '15 at 02:15