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when creating a new client i click the "Take Picture" button on my form,

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Add ability to work with scanner or camera from your application with VintaSoftTwain ActiveX. You can fully control an image acquisition process, use an automatic document feeder, clean up images using noise removal, auto border crop, blank page detection, save acquired images to disk or SQL server, upload images onto Web or FTP server. VintaSoftTwain was tested and has examples of use in: MS VB.NET, MS C#, MS VB 6.0, MS VC++ 6.0, Borland Delphi 7.0, Borland C++ Builder 6.0, Visual FoxPro 8.0, Gupta SQL Windows 3.1, MS Access, VBScript, JavaScript, MS Excel, MS Word, IBM Object Rexx language.

I'm trying to build a database which can capture a still image from a
digital camera or web cam and import to the database via an Object or
something like that.
Any help would be very appreciated.

Right now I have a button that takes the picture and stores it in a designated file on my hard drive, from there you can use your favorite technique for storing the picture in your database.

An Access form is used to take pictures of deliveries to record who received it, what time, etc. The Access form "sees" the video from the webcam in an image control; a button when clicked "takes" a picture and saves it as a jpg file.

He has a control called "ezvidCap.ocx" that was simple to set and use.
This is a good place to start:
http://www.shrinkwrapvb.com/dxvidcap.htm

"capture webcam" vb JPEG

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  WatchSome Webcams is webcam software that allows you to view many of your favorite webcams at the same time. You can configure the web cam software to automatically save the webcam pics to your hard drive.

Description of GdTwain OCX TWAIN ActiveX :
GdTwain OCX is a TWAIN ActiveX control allowing programmers to acquire easily images from devices such as scanners, cameras and capture cards. You can use it with any Windows development environment like Visual Basic, VFP, .NET, Delphi, C++ and other

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FOUND HERE:
http://www.utteraccess.com/forum/Control-scanner-Access-t1894098.html

you can use the WIA (Windows Imaging Acquisition) library.

Did the webcam come with software that you installed?

If so, the webcam software may provide a COM interface that you can use in Access. Start Access, go to the VBA editor (Alt-F11) and select Tools, References from the menu.

Brief Description
The Windows Image Acquisition Automation Library v2.0 provides basic image acquisition and manipulation functionality to Visual Basic and Scripting applications.The download package

The attached Twain Class Module maybe of some help. I have never used it just had it kicking around on a hard drive of things to do.
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 clsTwain.zip ( 4.01K ) Number of downloads: 25

The following example uses the IWiaVideo interface to create a streaming video preview and get a still image from that streaming video. The example assumes that you have a valid handle to a window (HWND).

Note Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) does not support video devices in Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or later. For those versions of the Windows, use DirectShow to acquire images from video.