[SOLVED] How to Run an .exe using java

[rjuyal]

Quote:

Can anyone tel me this what does this mean?/?

cmd.exe???

cmd.exe is present only in Windows

[jazz2k8]

thats ok...How to implement it with my omnipage.exe...

with cmd.exe can we run it in silent mode?(background?)

[rjuyal]

as DonCash said, if OmniPage.exe can take parameters then yes!!

[jazz2k8]

yeah ..i have seen in my previous company that it will take params...if i try here it is opening in GUI mode...:-(

[sukatoa]

What parameters should be added in order to run that omnipage.exe?

[jazz2k8]

it is taking parameters of .tiff images..like

C:\\omnipage\\omnipage.exe,"1.tif,2.tif"

[sukatoa]

try this,

Code:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /C start C:\\omnipage\\omnipage.exe 1.tif, 2.tif");

Update us,

[Eranga]

I'm confusing what he is talking about GUI or something. May be he want to do this through a GUI. But it's not difficult. Or may be he is looking to deal with the original application GUI??

[jazz2k8]

The following error i am getting:

java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "cmd /C start C:\Program Files\ScanSoft\OmniPage15.0\omnipage.exe": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at ProBuild.main(ProBuild.java:29)


Here comes my code:


import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;


public class ProBuild {

public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException{
Process process = null;
try{

process = new ProcessBuilder("cmd /C start C:\\Program Files\\ScanSoft\\OmniPage15.0\\omnipage.exe","D:\\ Invoice\\fa1.tif").start();

}
catch(Exception e)
{System.out.println(e);}

InputStream is = process.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
String line;

while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
}
}


if i pass parameters like :

process = new ProcessBuilder("C:\\Program Files\\ScanSoft\\OmniPage15.0\\omnipage.exe","D:\\ bharath\\fa1.tif").start();

It is opening in GUI mode....where as i want to run it in the background...
Is there any thing in java like pop-up=false

[rjuyal]

You must be having some doc of omnipage software, in which all the command line parameters will be there. Certainly there must some argument which make the omnipage to run in backgroud.

Also, it is quite possible that omnipage is having there own libraries.

i googled for omnipage, one of the result was omnipage sdk . may be you know what it is

[jazz2k8]

thnx Rakesh...actually i am trying the same tooo.... omnipage sdk..it will works i think...thnx for ur time nd support

[rjuyal]

how about closing the thread as SOLVED