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A few months ago, I published a cross-platform desktop barcode reading application built with Qt Python and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. The supported input sources include real-time camera stream, image files, and screenshots. In this article, I will set document scanner as the ...

When building a TWAIN-compatible application and there is no physical scanner available, you can use a virtual scanner application for development and testing. TWAIN working group has released a TWAIN DS sample on GitHub. In this article, I will detail how to set up the devel ...

The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) lets us build apps for any Windows device and publish them to the Store. It is the latest technology of Microsoft to create client apps. We can use the new visuals and features of the latest version of Windows in a UWP app.

Last time, I shared an article Document Imaging and Uploading with Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) and Node.js, which demonstrated how to deploy a website on the Web server that implemented in node.js with Express. Today, I’ll re-write the sample with Express application generator an ...

Django is a popular framework of Python for web development. In this tutorial, we will create a web application with Django and Dynamic Web TWAIN.

The Clipboard API allows web applications to read and write the clipboard’s contents, which makes it convenient to paste scanned documents to other applications like Word, email clients and load images from the clipboard in a Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) application.

Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT)’s Remote Scan feature makes it possible to scan documents from your scanner or multi-function printer (MFP) directly to any device. You may wonder what other network scanning options exist. This article is going to give a brief overview of scanning ove ...

Email is a convenient way to send scanned documents. The ability to send emails is built into many network scanners. For example, HP All-in-One devices have a Scan-to-Email app.

Continuous file synchronization programs synchronize files between two or more devices in real time. We can use them to sync scanned documents so that we can access the files on multiple devices.

Since from version 17.1, Chromes OS comes into the supporting list of Dynamic Web TWAIN. The supported desktop operating systems of Dynamic Web TWAIN now include Windows, Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi OS and Chrome OS. This article helps Chromebook users to install Dynamic Web T ...

Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applicationss with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Since Dynamic Web TWAIN is also a cross-platform JavaScript library for document scanning and management, we can combine Electron and Dynamic Web TWAIN to implement a des ...

Cameras are now ubiquitous in our life. Every mobile phone has built-in cameras which can shoot nice photos. As for document scanning, there is document camera (also called overhead scanner) which is adjustable and has high resolution.

As the world best web document scanning SDK, Dynamic Web TWAIN supports all mainstream web application frameworks. This tutorial goes through the steps to build a simple document management application using Dynamic Web TWAIN and Angular.

Blazor is a framework for building interactive client-side web UI with .NET1. Users can create interactive UIs in C# instead of JavaScript. Server-side and client-side app logic can both be written in .NET. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/?view= ...

Dynamic Web TWAIN is a JavaScript library designed for document scanning and document management. This tutorial guides through React development. You will see how to combine Reactjs and Dynamic Web TWAIN to build a simple web application which can acquire images from a docume ...

Have you ever thought about how to create a Web document scanning application using Ruby on Rails? In this tutorial, we go through how to create a Rails project with Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) SDK for loading, scanning and uploading document files.

In the past, Dynamic Web TWAIN only supported HTML DOM elements. Some web frameworks based on Shadow DOM, like Polymer, could not work with Dynamic Web TWAIN. Starting from version 16.1, Dynamic Web TWAIN was fully compatible with Shadow DOM. This article shares how to integ ...

Dynamic Web TWAIN 16 has added some exciting features related to the mobile platform.

As the world’s top scanner programming SDK, Dynamic Web TWAIN features a lot of compelling functionalities. By upgrading to the latest version, any web document scanning app built with Dynamic Web TWAIN can be compatible with mobile devices seamlessly. What will happen if you ...

With the release of Apple M1, Mac has started their journey transitioning from x86_64 to arm64. Dynamsoft has not released any package for the new architecture Mac yet. However, it does not mean we can’t run our existing software on the new platform. Rosetta2 could translate ...

ASP.NET Core enables C# application to run on *nix operating systems. In this tutorial, we are going to play with ASP.NET Core and Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK to build a DotNet Core document scanning application for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Wrapping a HTML element as an component is a new fashion of front-end development. In this article, we will take a tour of building a component-based document scanning app using Vue.js and Dynamic Web TWAIN. To make our app look modern, we hire Vuetify, one of the most popula ...

Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK v15.2 brings a set of new APIs for classifying images by tags. In this article, I will share how to use the latest JavaScript APIs to implement a simple web document management app from scratch.

Laravel is a PHP Framework. This article shares how to use Dynamic Web TWAIN to scan and upload documents in a Laravel project.

Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. It aims to help C# developers create cross-platform .NET applications. Although .NET Core is born for multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, and macOS), it is so far not a substitution of .NET framework. If you ...

This tutorial aims to help .NET developers use Dynamic .NET TWAIN in Unity projects.

RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader that implements Asynchronous Module Definition(AMD) API for in-browser use. Similar to require() used in Node.js, we can use requirejs() to load any JavaScript module for web apps. In this post, I will share how to use Dynamic ...

Dynamic Web TWAIN has been widely used for developing web browser based document scanning apps. Is it possible to embed Dynamic Web TWAIN APIs into a Chrome app or extension? In this post, I want to share what I went through while building a Chrome extension.

Dynamic Web TWAIN for Raspberry Pi is on Dynamsoft Labs now. No matter whether you are a Dynamic Web TWAIN user or not, if you want to build a document scanning and management system with low cost, you should experience this edition. Build a smart and wireless scanner with a ...

Dynamic Web TWAIN for Linux is coming soon. The underlying technology is SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). Although we do not need to write any code other than JavaScript when using Dynamic Web TWAIN to develop SANE document scanning applications on Linux, learning the underlyi ...

Have you ever imagined to build a JavaScript document scanning solution for Windows, Linux, and macOS from one single codebase? To make it, you need to find a solution that compatible with different scanner driver types: TWAIN for Windows, SANE for Linux, TWAIN, and ICA for m ...

Dynamic Web TWAIN is a document scanning SDK that allows developers to build document management solutions in JavaScript. The beta version of Dynamic Web TWAIN for Linux is available for download. This post will illustrate how to build a simple web application to scan documen ...

Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK is a scanning SDK designed for web application development. It helps developers to easily build document scanning apps with a few lines of JavaScript code. The preview of Dynamic Web TWAIN for Linux is available now. In this post, I will demonstrate how ...

ZK is a Java Web framework that similar to GWT. Some developers have no idea how they can integrate DWT (Dynamic Web TWAIN) into a ZK Web project. I have successfully made it. The process is not too hard, but a little bit tricky.

The article demonstrates how to upload the document images, scanned by Dynamic Web TWAIN, to Microsoft Azure Web service. You can run the enclosed sample for testing. To learn how to get started with the toolkit, please refer to the Developers’ Guide.

MongoDB is known as a NoSQL database, which uses a JSON-like document structure by key-value pairs. Comparing to the relational database like MySQL, MongoDB is easier and more scalable. Especially when processing big and complex data, MongoDB can perform faster and better. In ...

AngularJS is a Web application framework for rendering dynamic Web content with MVC architecture. It reduces amount of JavaScript code with the feature of two-way data binding. More and more developers tend to use Angular for client-side development. Therefore, I’d like to sh ...

GWT (Google Web Toolkit), a development toolkit that allows developers to build complicated JavaScript Web applications in Java, has been used by many outstanding products, such as Google AdSense, Google AdWords, and so on. It is open source, and completely free. In this post ...

Last week, I introduced how to create a Web application for document imaging and uploading with Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK and Node.js. In this tutorial, I’d like to share a more convenient way to implement such a solution in Go. You can just copy the client-relevant resources and ...

In this tutorial, I’d like to share how to implement a simple Web application for document imaging and uploading with Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK (DWT) and Node.js.

Some Java developers asked a question about how to use Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) to upload image files when building a Web application with Struts. In this tutorial, I’d like to make a detailed explanation.

Dynamsoft provides a free online OCR tool for end-users. In this tutorial, I’d like to anatomize how to use Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK and Dynamic .NET TWAIN SDK to implement the online OCR solution. You can have fun with the tool before reading the next paragraph.

In this tutorial, let’s learn how to implement a simple application to scan documents with Dynamic .NET TWAIN and upload scanned images to Google Drive step by step.

If you have a TWAIN-compliant scanner, you can easily control it with Dynamic Web TWAIN or Dynamic .NET TWAIN. Both SDKs can help you create some excellent applications for document scanning and management on PCs. However, have you ever complained that it’s so inconvenient to ...

In this tutorial, I am about to make a more complicated solution – Web-based document imaging capture, combining the implementation of Java TWAIN and Java WebSocket with Dynamic .NET TWAIN library, C#, JNI, Java Swing, Jetty and HTML5 WebSocket. Here is the workflow:

Dynamic .NET TWAIN is one of the excellent TWAIN-compliant SDKs for document scanning and image capture. In this tutorial, I would like to share how to create a bridge to convert .NET TWAIN C# methods to Java methods in order to help Java developers easily implement Java TWAI ...

In this tutorial, I want to make a more complicated WebSocket demo, which enables me to capture images from scanners on server side, and view the images in desktop web browsers or mobile web browsers. Here is the flowchart:

Dynamic .NET TWAIN 5.0 has been released for a while. To help users to quickly grasp APIs, a brand-new API demo, written in WPF with C# & VB.NET, is included. In this tutorial, we would like to show the anatomy of this application. Let’s glance at the screenshot as a warm ...

It’s been a while now since Microsoft released a Windows 8.1 Preview with a Preview of IE 11 too. No doubt many users have already tested it. It is apparent that Microsoft has entirely rebuilt the developer tools and made them much more beautiful and powerful. There are eight ...

In today’s “big data era”, more and more organizations are using an enterprise content management (ECM) or record management system (RMS) to help maintain and manage the documents. Digitizing documents and storing them in a central database has become an important part of man ...

ActiveX is a software framework created by Microsoft for sharing information and functionality among different applications. As for web application, ActiveX only works with Internet Explorer.

You may get problems when using your application with some scanners and wonder whether it is the issue with your application or it is the device issue.

Since Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista was released, Protected Mode has been introduced as a new security feature. When running in Protected Mode, Internet Explorer is a low integrity process and has limited permissions to access the user system.

1. Introduction to OCR add-on

Simplify your document scanning and editing process_

A lot of businesses and organizations have a bunch of existing digital documents and images that require to be handled. These digital materials might be shared documents for different departments in the company, collected images from the customers, and more.

Besides document scanning, editing and uploading, supporting all mainstream browsers is another nice feature of Dynamic Web TWAIN. In this article, I’ll share with you on how to solve the browser compatibility issue using the image scanning SDK.

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