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Need help on integrating .Net based application with Kofax device

I am looking for some help documents which explains the steps to integrate .Net based applications with Kofax devices. I have visited KOfax official site and found that such help documents are available but not accessible for anonymous users. It is only accessible to Customers or business Partners. At this moment, I do not comply this both conditions. Can anyone please guide me with the process needed for integration and provide me any help link which explains the things ? Any information related to using Kofax Capture Document Access API in a .net application will be very helpful. Please advise.

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  • The Developer's Guide and API Reference Guide are both available public on the product support site: Kofax Capture 10.1 Documentation (updated link, but now requires login). That page also links to prior versions of Kofax Capture if that is what you need.

    From the Developer's Guide, this sounds like the topic for which you are looking:

    Kofax Capture Document Access .NET Type Implementation makes it possible for the custom module to access batch information from Kofax Capture. This library also allows your custom module to relay batch information from the custom module to Kofax Capture.

    update: If you are looking for a sample for developing a custom module, the product comes with several samples installed to CaptureSV\Source\Sample Projects\CustMod. There is also an older sample available here: KC8 Color To Bitonal Image Converter Module*. Though the installer does not recognize later versions of Kofax Capture, the include source is a useful example.

    C# vs VB.NET

    I believe all of the official product documentation and official samples use VB.NET. If you have any trouble with the differences you should be able to use a code coverter to convert snippets to C#. In contrast to the product documentation, "Application Notes" (updated link, but now requires login) are written by Technical Support, and often contain C# samples, such as "Sample Workflow Agents"* which are all in C#. Application Notes from prior versions of Kofax Capture are often still relevant to the current version.

    *These links appear to now prompt for credentials but then still download if credential prompt is canceled.