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Dynamsoft was listed in the Top Software Development Companies in 2022 by Techreviewer- a research and analytics company focused on delivering lists of the top-performing companies in multiple industries. More than a hundred other large to mid-sized software companies made it to the list. Dynamsoft was recognised on the list...

A 4th-year Ph.D. student, Mustafa Doga Dogan, in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, came up with the idea of invisible machine-readable labels that identify and track objects. Dogan, along with other MIT research scientists, calls these InfraredTags. These tags are embedded within the interior of the...

2022 We are excited to share that Dynamsoft has been named a Top 25 Publisher at the ComponentSource Awards for 2022, making for back-to-back years Dynamsoft has earned the award That’s not it! Our Dynamic Web TWAIN has bagged the Top 100 Product Award for 2022 by ComponentSource. 2022 Publisher...

In the last few days we had several customers reaching out with concerns over the Log4Shell exploit (CVE-2021-44228). We want to inform you all that Dynamsoft is not using Log4j in any of our products, demos, samples, or anywhere else on our websites. Rest assured that Dynamsoft is an ISO...

Chrome has gained over 60% of market share worldwide. So, how to enable interaction with document scanners in Chrome? Scan Documents in Chrome v32 to v44 with Dynamsoft’s NPAPI Plugin At the end of year 2013, Google announced that Chrome would be phasing out support for NPAPI plugin in 2014....

No matter you believe it or not, the 1D barcode detection speed of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader v8.8 is more than 2x faster than the previous version. If you need the best barcode SDK ever, do not hesitate to upgrade the SDK version. Download DBR v8.8 License Activation Get a 30-day FREE...

We have been cultivating a long-time interest in the field of optical character recognition (OCR). Today, we are excited to announce Dynamsoft Label Recognizer 2.0, which is revolutionary to version 1.0 in its ability to detect and recognize text in images. Download DLR v2.0 Highlighted Features Dynamsoft Label Recognizer 2.0...

Enable Web TWAIN scanning in IE and Microsoft Edge browsers on Windows 10 Window 10 comes with two internet browsers - Internet Explorer (IE) 11 and Edge. Many customers inquire how Dynamic Web TWAIN works with the browsers on Windows 10. In short, Dynamic Web TWAIN fully supports browser-based document scanning...

We are happy to announce the release of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK v8.6. The new version comes with two DeblurMode Enumerations to support more usage scenarios, improved confidence calculation algorithm, and more. Take a look at all the major highlights!  Improved 1D Barcode Reading Accuracy  Improved the confidence algorithm, which...

We are thrilled to announce the release of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader v8.4, which is now available for download. We always apply the latest imaging technologies to improve the decoding accuracy and speed for various barcode types that we support. This version significantly reduced the decoding time of high-density QR Codes...

Recently, we unveiled Dynamic Web TWAIN 17.0, which brought some brand-new features to expedite the development of web document management applications. Background Scanning Service for 64-bit ARM and MIPS Devices Starting from version 17.0, all web document scanning applications developed with Dynamic Web TWAIN can perfectly work on 64-bit ARM and...

Before we introduce this new feature, let’s take a look at how Dynamic Web TWAIN HTML5 Edition works in previous versions. Scan Documents from a Local Scanner As illustrated above, when an end-user visits the document scanning page for the very first time, a service program is downloaded and installed...

We are excited to announce Dynamic Web TWAIN 16.2 is available for download. As always, Dynamsoft brings some exciting features to developers in the latest release. Dynamic Web TWAIN 16.2 does not only add some new APIs but supports new platforms and web frameworks as well. Download for Windows, Linux,...

We have unleashed Dynamsoft Barcode Reader v8.1. The minor update supports C/C++, Java, .NET, Python, Kotlin, Swift programming on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Barcode SDK Downloads Go to the download page to get a specific SDK edition. Highlights Added support for MSI Code (Modified Plessey). BF_MSI_CODE = 0x100000 Added a...

We are excited to release Dynamsoft Barcode Reader v8.0, which is a major release with a set of new features and improvements. The SDK is now available for Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS development, and other editions are coming soon. We hope the new version can bring more flexibility, efficiency,...

Dynamsoft has released a new version of the document scanning SDK, Dynamic Web TWAIN V16.0. This version extends the existing functionalities of its desktop version to the mobile platforms. Also, Dynamsoft has developed a brand new image viewer to deliver a unified document capture and management experience across Windows, Linux,...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader v7.4 brings a few new APIs and parameter configurations, such as DotCode barcode recognition, vector PDF decoding, video frame filtering and so on. Let’s take a glimpse at some of the new features in advance. Highlights Add relative ROI (Region of Interest) detection. Assume the barcode is...

In retail, crumpled QR codes are common on plastic packaging or cylinder containers, for example. Wrinkled codes are also common with paper receipts or tickets. Deskewing a crumpled QR code can sometimes diminish the quality of the image, which in turn reduces the barcode recognition accuracy. But, Dynamsoft Barcode Reader...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader v7.3 introduces some new barcode processing features and it now also provides a capability to use OCR technology to process the human readable text that accompanies a linear barcode image. Accompanying text enables users to compare the result from barcode decoding to the OCR result. Features OCR...

If you’ve ever managed barcode technology, you’re familiar that sometimes a physical barcode can be incomplete. For example, sometimes a corner of one might be missing due to poor printing or damage. For QR Codes and Data Matrix codes, this can cause the finder patterns to be obscured.  The morphology...

This post is meant for users who are using version 7.x of the SDK in an web application running in browsers. If you are using version 6.x of the library or using the SDK in a Node.js application and  wish  to upgrade,  please contact Dynamsoft support. Dynamsoft released v7.2.2 of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK for JavaScript on Nov 27th. This...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK for JavaScript supports real-time localization and decoding of various barcode types. The library is capable of scanning barcodes from static images as well as directly from live video streams. It also supports reading multiple barcodes at once. The latest version introduced a frame filtering feature so...

With the release of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader version 7.2, we have added support for Direct Part Marking (DPM). Due to their nature of being etched into surfaces rather than printed in black and white, DPM codes present a number of unique challenges for barcode readers. In this post, we discuss...

15.2 (09/19/2019) New [HTML5] Added capability to add tags to images, which can be used to filter images. The new APIs are TagImages, ClearImageTags, SetDefaultTag and FilterImagesByTag Improved [HTML5] Tidied up the Dynamsoft Service installer by removing redundant files [HTML5] Unified image decoding capabilities for JPEG and PNG on Windows,...

New Added automatic blurry frame filtering for the video frame decoding, reducing incorrect barcode recognition. Added three arguments for the CICM_GENERAL of ColourConversionModes to set the weights for the color conversion, providing more flexibility to deal with various kinds of backgrounds by using different weights of three colors: red, green...

ADDED [HTML5 macOS] Added 64-bit support to macOS. [HTML5 macOS & Linux] Expanded the event OnPostTransferAsync from Windows to macOS & Linux. The method serves as the asynchronous counterpart to the existing synchronous event OnPostTransfer. Information about the transferred image is returned in the event listener. [HTML5 macOS & Linux] Expanded the method startScan from Windows to macOS...

NEW Added the capability to enable/disable the torch/flashlight of a mobile device (when available, only Chrome on Android). Added APIs for finer video control. These APIs are getAllCameras, getCurrentCamera, setCurrentCamera, getResolution, setResolution. IMPROVED Updated algorithm to 7.0. Updated default runtimeSettings for BarcodeScanner. Improved 1D barcode decoding accuracy by comparing results...

With the release of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader DBR 7.0, we are excited to introduce a number of features and enhancements that take Dynamsoft Barcode Reader to another level. In this post, we discuss these new features, how they work, and what they mean for you. More Modes, More Flexibility A...

Mobile devices have undoubtedly become indispensable parts of our lives, but more and more they are assets used to perform daily job functions. Across many industries such as healthcare and postal services, workers rely on their phones and tablets to scan barcodes, track inventory, store and lookup records in databases,...

Dynamic Web TWAIN 15.0 (Jun 25, 2019) Try Dynamic Web TWAIN 15.0 for Free ADDED **HTML5 Win** — Added a new method startScan which accepts a JSON object that specifies all the scan parameters. This makes it simpler and even faster to initiate a scan job. At the same time,...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader v6.5 was just released. Our testing showed phenomenal improvement from the past version, which enabled a much better user experience. We reduced build time by 106% and Improved decoding time by 98%. In this article, we discuss how we achieved these results with WebAssembly optimization and codebase...

Dynamic Web TWAIN v14.3.1 introduced a new compression algorithm to the TIFF format. When a user exports scanned documents to a one-page or multi-page TIFF file, the size will now be reduced by 50%~60%. Some early adopters expressed appreciation for this update: “With this version, the scanned documents are approximately...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK is better than ever with the official release of JavaScript Edition v6.4.1. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader JavaScript Edition enables fast and reliable cross-platform, cross-browser barcode scanning in the web applications on desktops, tablets, or mobile devices. Highlights: Fast loading and initialization along with the support of Web Worker to...

We are happy to announce the release of version 14.3 of Dynamic Web TWAIN, the cross-browser document scanning SDK that works with TWAIN, SANE and ICA scanners. Highlights: Added Per Server Annual License type No more distinction between Non-Production and Production Server licenses to ensure easier license management Fixed some...

We are happy to announce the release of version 6.2 of Dynamsoft Camera SDK for Windows. The web-based camera SDK enables you to easily implement image and document capture from cameras within browsers. Highlights: Added a 64-bit service and a 64-bit camera module. Added Enhanced Mode to optimize the performance...

We are happy to announce the release of version 14.0 of Dynamic Web TWAIN, the cross-browser cross-platform document scanning SDK for web applications. Highlights: Optimized HTML5 image viewer with the following new features: Loading local images with drag and drop Rearranging one or multiple images with drag and drop within...

We are happy to announce the release of version 2.0 of Dynamsoft Camera SDK for Android. The mobile capture SDK enables you to integrate image and document capture in your Android apps quickly. With the built-in document detection and image processing, your app users will be able to capture scanner-quality...

We are happy to announce the release of version 6.2 of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader, the barcode scanner library for you to quickly integrate barcode scanning in your desktop, web, or mobile applications. Highlights in Dynamsoft Barcode Reader v6.2: Decreased misreading rate for 1D barcodes Enhanced performance for reading multiple barcodes...

Easily integrate mobile web capture and upload in your app We’re happy to announce that Dynamsoft Mobile Browser Capture SDK is now available. The light-weight pure JavaScript SDK enables you to easily integrate image or document capture from mobile cameras, image viewing/editing and HTTP(s) uploading to your web application. Combined...

Scan 2D barcodes faster and enjoy better performance for rotated images We are happy to announce the release of version 6.1 of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader, the barcode scanner library for you to quickly integrate barcode scanning to your desktop, web, or mobile applications. Highlights in v6.1 Improved scanning speed for...

We are happy to announce version 13.4.1 of Dynamic Web TWAIN, the cross-browser document scanning SDK, is now available. With the web scan SDK, you can quickly integrate a document scanning module to your web application to acquire images from TWAIN, SANE or ICA scanners in JavaScript. Highlights in v13.4.1...

We are happy to announce the release of version 6.0 of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK. The barcode reader library enables you to efficiently embed barcode scanning functionality in your desktop, web, and mobile applications. Highlights in v6.0 Improved average reading speed by 50% in a four-core CPU environment Added method...

We are happy to announce the release of version 6.1 of Dynamsoft Camera SDK, the browser-based camera library for you to easily enable image and document capture from UVC cameras in your Web application. Highlights Added save and saveAsync methods to save images/documents in the image viewer to a local...

We are happy to announce the release of Dynamic Web TWAIN v13.3. The new version comes with a revamped PDF Rasterizer and other improvements to help you create a web-based document scanning solution better. Highlights in v13.3 Revamped PDF Rasterizer with new technology. It now supports PDF rasterizing on macOS...

We are pleased to announce the release of version 6.4 of SourceAnywhere, the enterprise-grade version control software designed as a more powerful Visual SourceSafe (VSS) replacement. Main improvements in the new version: Improved ‘Find in Files’ function. You can now search special characters. Purge and WildcardSearch commands are now available...

We are happy to announce that version 13.2 of Dynamic Web TWAIN, the cross-browser and cross-platform document scanning SDK, is released. Updates in the new version [HTML5 for All] fixed a memory leak where the scanning service didn’t release memory after transferring image data to web browsers. Note: this bug...

We are happy to announce the release of version 5.2 of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK. With our barcode scanning SDK, you can quickly and easily implement barcode reading capacities into your Web, desktop or mobile applications. Highlights in the new version: Improved the recognition performance for PDF417 with optimized localization...

Update on 2021/06/07: Dynamsoft Camera SDK is now retired. We replaced it with a camera add-on of Dynamic Web TWAIN. Previous release annoucement: We are happy to announce the release of version 6.0 of Dynamsoft Camera SDK, the web-based camera library which provides JavaScript APIs that enable you to easily capture...

We are glad to announce that version 7.1 of Dynamic .NET TWAIN – the simple and effective TWAIN scanning component for your .NET application - is now available. Highlights in the new release: Added SaveAsTIFF method to save images as multi-page TIFF in bytes. Optimized the memory management of video streaming...

We are happy to announce the release of version 13.0 of Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT), the cross-browser, cross-platform web scanning SDK. This major upgrade implements a new design and better SEO strategy – the new central Dynamsoft Service plus different imaging modules (scan, camera capture, PDF, barcode reader, and OCR). With the new...

We are happy to announce the release of version 5.1 of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader with new JavaScript SDK. With our barcode scanner SDK, you can easily create a barcode reading application (Web, desktop or mobile) using just a few lines of code. Highlights in the new version: Added new standalone...

Web browsers keep changing. Chrome introduced another certificate update that would affect the use of Dynamic Web TWAIN - Starting in Chrome 58, Chrome removed the support for commonName matching in SSL certificates. In response to the Chrome 58 certificate update, we are happy to release Dynamic Web TWAIN v12.3. The...

Google has just released Chrome 57 which officially stopped the support for SHA-1 certificates. For users of Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) - the browser-based TWAIN scanning SDK: If you are using the latest version - Dynamic Web TWAIN v12.2, please rest assured that it works fine with the latest version...

We are happy to announce the release of v12.2 of Dynamic Web TWAIN which migrates the certificate algorithm from SHA-1 to SHA-2 for the scanning service. Major browsers are deprecating the support of SHA-1 signed certificates. Chrome 56, and Firefox 51, scheduled to be released in Jan. 2017, will stop...

We are happy to announce the release of version 12.1 of Dynamic Web TWAIN, featuring the addition of our new Linux Edition which enables you to quickly add web-based document scanning support for your Linux users. With Linux support added, Dynamic Web TWAIN now enables web scan on all major...

We are pleased to announce the release of version 12.0 of Dynamic Web TWAIN, the JavaScript TWAIN scanning library for your Web application. The new version includes multiple new features and improvements that facilitate your development of web-based document scanning solutions to satisfy your users’ needs. Web Scan from Any...

We are glad to announce that version 6.2 of Dynamic .NET TWAIN – the simple and effective TWAIN scanning component for your .NET application - is now available. The new version includes an optimized PDF Rasterizer add-on with new PDF manipulation APIs: You can now join or merge multiple PDF...

Implement Web Scanning on Linux Machines with Dynamic Web TWAIN Linux We are happy to announce the beta version of Dynamic Web TWAIN Linux Edition is now available. Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) is a web-based scanning SDK that enables you to easily embed online document scanning to your website or...

We are pleased to announce that Dynamsoft’s iOS barcode scanner SDK is now available. With this new iOS barcode SDK, you can easily develop an iOS App and transform iPhone into barcode scanning tools. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader for iOS SDK supports iOS 7, 8, 9, iPhone 4s and above. Valid...

v11.3.2 added OCR module and improved scanning performance We are pleased to announce that version 11.3.2 of Dynamic Web TWAIN, the web-based TWAIN scanning and imaging SDK, is now available! Highlights of the new version: Added new OCR Professional Add-on for extracting text from images. The OCR module supports Western and...

Scan Images and Conduct OCR in Web Apps with Dynamic Web TWAIN and its New OCR Engine Now you can scan documents and perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract text from images with Dynamic Web TWAIN, using its new OCR engine. This capability is a common requirement for most...

We are pleased to announce that version 6.1 is now available! Highlights of the new version: NEW Added GetBitmap method to convert an image to a Bitmap so that you can read a barcode from a Bitmap image in WPF applications. Added Rotate and FocusOnArea functionalities in the Dynamic .NET...

We are pleased to announce that Dynamic Web TWAIN 11.0, the web-based TWAIN scanning SDK, is now available! Many improvements have been introduced in this major update. Here we will introduce some highlights of the new version. HTML5 TWAIN Scanning on Mac This new version includes HTML5 TWAIN scanning support...

We are pleased to announce that version 10.2 is now available! Highlights of the new version: Greatly improved performance on image viewing & processing in HTML5 Edition Added Webcam Capture Module to enable image capturing from webcams in your web application Added support for 64-bit browsers on Mac OS X More than...

We are pleased to announce that version 10.1.1 is now available! Try out online demo to see the new version in action » There are some new improvements we’d like to share with you: Added Dynamsoft.WebTwainEnv.AutoLoad property to enable or disable automatic loading of Dynamic Web TWAIN. When this property is disabled,...

As we mentioned earlier in Say Good-Bye to NPAPI – Dynamic Web TWAIN 10.0 Preview (HTML5) is Released!, Google hoped to remove the NPAPI plugins support in 2015 in consideration of security, speed, and stability. Unsurprisingly, Google announced its final plan for the removal recently. In April 2015, Chrome will disable...

I’m pleased to announce that SourceAnywhere 6.1 is available. This is a SQL server-based version control software designed as a VSS replacement. Below are the main improvements we made in this version. Improved folder level Branch & Merge. Type of Merge, Recover, Edit is now supported. Merge result can be...

V11.1 Scheduled release date: to be decided Features to be introduced: HTML5 Support for Microsoft Edge browser Webcam & barcode add-on for Mac OSX V11.0 Release date: July 23, 2015 Features introduced: HTML5 support for Safari v7+, Chrome v27+ and Firefox v27+ on Mac OS X 10.6 or later HTML5...

With 72.19% of Dynamic Web TWAIN customers having the requirement of supporting Chrome and Firefox in their application, the importance of Dynamic Web TWAIN HTML5 Edition is clearer than ever. Start your Free 30-day Trial Google is dropping support for NPAPI-based plugins As is well known by now, Google is...

It is exciting to see the new functionalities, Branch & Merge, are now available in SourceAnywhere 6.0. You can quickly find them on toolbar, or by right-clicking any folder. In this tutorial, let’s go through how to use Branch and Merge step by step. Download 30-day free trial   How...

Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 30 on June 10. Since this version, Firefox will deactivate plugins, with the exception of those bundled inside an extension or ones that are whitelisted, by default. To use Dynamsoft’s document imaging NPAPI Plugins (Dynamic Web TWAIN/ImageCapture Suite) in Firefox 30, please follow...

I am pleased to announce that preview version of Dynamic Web TWAIN Plugin Edition for Chrome is now available! The new solution is implemented with HTML5, which means there is no need to install a plugin/extension for document scanning within Chrome. It brings a new way for data transmission between...

We’re more than excited to announce that Dynamic .NET TWAIN 5.2 is released. There are some new improvements we’d like to share with you. New Add-ons: PDF Rasterizer, which performs high-quality conversion from a PDF file (either image-based or text-based) to an image. This way, the output image can be...

In a previous blog article, we mentioned that our R&D team has been actively researching different alternatives to support post-NPAPI Chrome for our web-based document imaging SDKs. We are glad to announce that after a series of researches and analysis, we have come to the conclusion - we will develop a...

Microsoft’s IE 11 has been released for a while now. The new version of Internet Explorer, which has been redesigned with many new features, is excellent on performance. However, it removes some old features that may cause compatibility problems for ActiveX based web application, such as the document scanning online...

We are glad to announce that ImageCapture Suite 9.1 is released! Highlights in this minor update: Added ImageCaptureCore support for Mac Edition.The new property - ImageCaptureDriverType - allows Mac users to directly acquire images via ImageCaptureCore of Mac OS X (i.e. native scan without a TWAIN driver). Improved IE users’...