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Motion detection can detect whether there is a change in the positions of objects. It can be achieved by many methods. For example, infrared light or laser technology can be used for optical detection. As for image processing methods, there is a basic one by a fixed camera, which compares...
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Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer (DCE) provides high-level APIs for developers to quickly create a camera application, such as a barcode scanner and a text scanner. The API surface works across most Android and iOS devices. While it leverages the capabilities of Android’s Camera2 and iOS’s AVCaptureSession, it is much easier to...
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As the original writer of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader for Python (pip install dbr), I prefer using CPython and Dynamsoft C/C++ Barcode SDK to bring barcode detection APIs to Python. However, Ctypes is also worth to be explored. It allows developers to call C functions of shared libraries in pure Python...
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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. However, we cannot use these devices’ built-in email-sending ability if we want to control the scanning process in a web scanning...
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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. There are many cloud storage services which do the job, like Box, Dropbox, Onedrive and Google Drive. There...
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MRZ stands for machine readable zone. A passport has a machine-readable zone which contains the information about name, nationality, passport number, date of birth, sex, and expiration date of passport. This article introduces how to use Dynamsoft OCR SDK to recognize MRZ and parse the corresponding information. {% include series.html...
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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 TWAIN service in Chrome OS. Building...
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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 desktop document scanning and management application for Windows, Linux, and...
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Since version 16.1, Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) has added a remote scan feature. If there is a device running a background scanning service (Dynamsoft Service), other devices can access it via an Intranet to use scanners connected to that device, which makes it convenient to use mobile phones and tablets...
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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. Image source: https://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-ScanSnap-SV600-Overhead-Scanner/dp/B01FW17FGI/ A document camera has the following benefits: Users don’t have...