Windows Image Acquisition is the driver model which is responsible for communication between the system and graphics hardware. It provides image acquisition services for scanners and cameras.

I go into services.msc and enabled all supporting dependencies DCOM, and RPC services which work with WIA Windows Acquisition Service ... not start the Windows Image Acquisiton (WIA) service ...

Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) driver is used by your Operating System to make graphics applications such as Photoshop to communicate with imaging devices such as Printer and Scanner. If you are ...

This system supersedes both Windows Media Device Manager (WMDM) and Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) by providing a flexible, robust way for a computer to communicate with music players ...

To use a scanner in XenApp, an administrator must install the TWAIN drivers for the imaging device on the client, disable Windows Image Acquisition to prevent it from interfering with TWAIN ...