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Dynamsoft Document Normalizer (DDN) is a comprehensive SDK designed for mobile document scanning and normalization. Limitations of Using a Smartphone for Document Scanning Taking snapshots of documents using a smartphone can be convenient, but smartphones are not designed for this purpose. Poor lighting, shadows, and lack of edge detection can...

Remote Scan is a feature added in Dynamic Web TWAIN 16.2, which makes it possible to scan documents from physical document scanners to mobile devices. To enable a scanner to be accessible over the Intranet, we need to run Dynamsoft Service on the desktop that has the scanner physically attached....

Dynamic Web TWAIN 18 has some exciting new features and one of them is the ability to scan documents from eSCL-compatible scanners or multi-function printers (MFP) directly to your Android mobile device. In this article, we are going to talk about how it works and how to use this feature....

Dynamic Web TWAIN v18 has some exciting new features and one of them is the ability to directly scan documents from eSCL-compatible scanners. Many modern scanners and multi-functional printers (MFPs) support the eSCL protocol. The protocol is a vendor-neutral network protocol that allows driverless scanning via ethernet, wireless and USB-connected...

With 72.19% of Dynamic Web TWAIN customers having the requirement of supporting Chrome and Firefox in their application, support for document scanning in HTML5 browsers is paramount. Start your Free 30-day Trial Document Scan Online Demo After this installation users will be able to perform scanning operations within the browser....

Dynamic Web TWAIN is a cross-platform document scanning SDK for web applications. It supports all modern browsers such as Edge, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. It has a powerful built-in camera add-on that works in desktop and mobile browsers. This helps users scan and...

Want to scan 1D barcodes or QR codes from images quickly in your browser? Try the free online barcode scanning application built using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK. This barcode scanning application highlights the powerful features and industry-leading performance of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK. To scan barcode online with this app,...

Barcode Scanner X is a free barcode scanner application that transforms mobile devices into barcode recognition tools. This barcode reader application lets you read linear, 2-dimensional barcodes, and high-density QR codes from camera video streams, image files, and screenshots. With the release of its latest version, Barcode Scanner X is...

In Dynamic Web TWAIN 17.2, Dynamsoft brings a new API called scanDocument(), which launches a full-fledged HTML5 document scanning widget based on the WebAssembly technology. With a few lines of JavaScript code, you can develop a web-based document management app for both desktop and mobile web browsers. SDK Installation Steps...

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....

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...

Looking for a web-based document scanning toolkit for your users to do online document scanning and uploading easily to your website? Scan Documents on Desktop You may try this web application to access scanners from within a browser: Scan Your Documents Online Browser-based scanning SDK for software developers The web page above...

Interested in integrating barcode reading into your application, but find the process overwhelming or confusing? You’ve come to the right place. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader provides multiple packages on different platforms based on different programming languages. In this post, we aim to help you by showing you how to choose the...

Controlling and overseeing a barcode inventory system accurately and efficiently is an important part of optimizing your supply chain. This is especially the case with automated storage and retrieval systems that have thousands or millions of SKUs. The panorama feature in a smartphone camera is a popular consumer application. It...

Google has announced that the good old user-agent string will be deprecated in the Chrome browser later this year. This change will provide better monitoring abilities, and let people know who is using this information and ultimately improve the end-users’ privacy. It is worth noting that this phase-out is currently...

Nowadays people expect their interaction with technology to be easy and uninterrupted regardless of location or device. A kid watching a cartoon in the living room television wants to continue watching on the iPad in his bedroom from where he left off. Adults in the workforce want that same experience...

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,...

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...

Human Readable Barcode Compared with 2d barcodes, linear barcodes are less robust and error-prone due to the lack of or low level of error detection and error correction mechanisms. For this reason, we often print text that encodes the same data as the barcode. Most often, the text string is...

Sometimes a physical barcode can be incomplete due to poor printing or damage. For QR Codes and Data Matrix codes, this can cause the finder patterns to be obscured.  The morphology of 2D matrix codes are made up of finder patterns. These finder patterns in QR Codes consist of three...

Dynamsoft Barcode Scanner is capable of decoding Direct Part Marking (DPM) codes. 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 those challenges and how Dynamsoft Barcode...

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,...

Improving accuracy and decoding rate remains a top priority for developers working with barcode reading SDKs. While configuration tweaks and improvements in the algorithm can result in drastic improvements, end users can also play a significant role by improving the image resolution at the time the image is taken, ensuring...

Looking for the best barcode reader SDK for your application, but aren’t sure how to evaluate the different options, and what considerations you should be making? You’ve come to the right place. There are more than a dozen commercial-grade barcode reader SDKs on the market and it can be time-consuming and...

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...

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...

Still using Visual SourceSafe (VSS) for version control? You are actually not alone. Although Microsoft has ceased updates for VSS a while ago, there are still companies using VSS. By staying with VSS, you may encounter compatibility issues when using newer versions of Visual Studio. The good news is you...

SourceAnywhere Server can be installed on the same machine with its backend SQL Server database, or on a different machine in the same LAN. In most scenarios, it is recommended to install the application with the SQL server. Here are a few reasons why: Performance. It reduces the communication latency...

Last updated on October 8th, 2022 Dynamic Web TWAIN has good support for modern browsers such as Firefox and other HTML-5 compatible browsers. After a very simple setup, you can enjoy the powerful scanning features offered by Dynamic Web TWAIN. To run the document scanning service which is called Dynamsoft...

Abstract: The Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Standalone COM Software Development Kit (SDK) enables us to integrate Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Standalone functionality with your Windows application that is written in a language which supports Microsoft’s Component Object Model. More specifically, here in this article, we will describe how to integrate the Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere Standalone...

Manage your Source Code Revisions in VS Efficiently using SourceAnywhere Version Control Looking for a simple yet efficient version control solution to manage the revisions for your Visual Studio projects? You may check out SourceAnywhere, a SQL-server based source control tool, which is optimized for using in Visual Studio. Visual Studio...

SQL Sever based Version Control Software Designed as SourceSafe Alternative SourceAnywhere, the Visual SourceSafe (VSS) alternative, offers all the functionality of VSS, plus a variety of additional features. As opposed to VSS, which is designed for secure local network, SourceAnywhere works well in remote and cross platform development environments. As...

Version Control Solutions for Eclipse Eclipse has some basic support for version control, which can be seen through the Team part of the right-click context menu, particularly when clicking on projects in the Package Explorer. By default, Eclipse supports the legacy version control system CVS, which can be seen through...

Update May 6, 2015 - A lot of things have changed. A new article named “10 Rules for Evaluating Web TWAIN Components – for 2015 and Beyond” is written to address those changes and considerations. You can get it here. TWAIN is a software protocol developed by member companies of...