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If you are developing a web application that requires the capability to deal with different digital file formats, chances are PDF will be a must-have file format. Scanning documents of text and graphics to PDF results in a compressed and visually clear file that can be read on a PC...

Most organizations continue to experience paperwork inefficiencies and the healthcare industry is arguably the top suffering sector for it. Thus, whether by regulation or not, healthcare organizations are more and more desperate for relief from paperwork via electronic health record (EHR) solutions. In this blog series, we will dissect the...

Document scanning functionality is a critical component for a software developer building a website, content management system, or office automation system. There are several different scanning drivers in the market: TWAIN Scanner WIA Scanner ISIS Scanner SANE Scanner Naturally, you may be confused as to what is the best solution for...

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,...

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...

Image processing and computer vision are hot trends in computer science that continue to show strong signs of momentum into the future due to their wide application and optimistic development prospects. In the first post of this blog series, we introduce the fundamentals of image processing by looking at what are images and how...

Dynamsoft is releasing a new online OCR (optical character recognition) hosting service, Dynamsoft Document Capture, to Convert scanned images and pdf files to editable word document. Designed to automate information capture from scanned documents or existing PDFs, users are empowered to extract text for purposes of document management, records archive,...

Dynamsoft contributed an article to CREDIT UNION JOURNAL that ran Dec 21, 2016. Start reading it below. In the old days, people went to their bank’s ATM to deposit their checks. Sometimes, they even ventured inside the bank and visited a teller to deposit their checks. It was inconvenient for...

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...

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...

In 2011, we published a great article called 10 Rules for Evaluating Web TWAIN Components. It helped many software developers with understanding their scanning project needs and getting perspective to evaluate TWAIN SDKs for web applications. But, quite a few things have changed since 2011. Quite a few. Since 2011, the...

The ability to easily store and retrieve digitized documents is an important feature of any document management system. In this article, we demonstrate how to use Dynamic Web TWAIN to expedite the development of a web document management application. You will see how to acquire documents from a document scanner,...

For document management solutions, it is a common requirement that a user puts a stack of documents for automatic document feeder (ADF) scanning. The documents may be for different purposes and he wants to automatically save them into different files after the scanning finishes. This way, it will greatly save...

More and more organizations are in need of a document imaging solution to convert paper documentation into electronic / digitized documents. The primary purpose organizations look to do this is to more easily and efficiently access and manage their records and data. Such a migration from paper-based to digital-based document...