The Dynamsoft Capture Vision Bundle is a single NuGet package that bundles three powerful vision capabilities: Dynamsoft Barcode Reader (DBR), Dynamsoft Document Normalizer (DDN), and Dynamsoft Label Recognizer (DLR) with MRZ parsing support. All capabilities are exposed through a single unified CaptureVisionRouter API. In this tutorial, we will build a...

Building desktop applications that interact with hardware devices like scanners and cameras has traditionally been challenging, often requiring platform-specific driver installations, complex configuration, and dealing with vendor-specific SDKs. Modern .NET development, however, provides us with powerful frameworks and libraries that simplify these interactions significantly. In this comprehensive tutorial, we’ll walk...

The Dynamic Web TWAIN service is the local bridge between browser applications and scanners. The first time a user visits a web scanning app built with Dynamic Web TWAIN, they’re prompted to install this service so scanning can work. In some scenarios, you may want tighter control: ship the service...

In today’s digital workplace, document scanning and text recognition are vital capabilities for many business applications. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a Windows document scanner application with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) using: .NET 8 C# Dynamic Web TWAIN REST API Windows.Media.Ocr API (Windows built-in OCR engine) By...

Barcode generators are essential tools in various scenarios. A typical use case is testing barcode reader and scanner SDKs. In this tutorial, we’ll build a Windows Forms application that can both generate and read barcodes using two popular .NET Barcode SDKs: ZXing.NET and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. ZXing.NET offers both barcode...

A Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) scanner application is a useful tool for car owners and car manufacturers, enabling quick retrieval of a vehicle’s unique identifier. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through creating a cross-platform VIN scanner using .NET MAUI and Dynamsoft Capture Vision, covering setup, UI implementation, and VIN recognition...

.NET MAUI is designed for cross-platform development, but achieving seamless compatibility across all platforms isn’t always straightforward. While developers might assume cross-platform apps are easy to build with .NET MAUI, many existing libraries were initially tailored for Xamarin and remain limited to Android and iOS. Creating a unified .NET MAUI...

Dynamsoft provides two NuGet packages for .NET MAUI development: Dynamsoft.BarcodeReaderBundle.Maui and Dynamsoft.DotNet.BarcodeReader.Bundle. The former targets Android and iOS, while the latter is built for Windows. In this article, we will demonstrate how to use Windows Media API to capture video frames from a USB camera and integrate Dynamsoft Barcode Reader...

Document digitization is a common task across various industries. Many documents—such as exam papers, legal contracts, patient records, account statements and more—contain barcodes that store crucial information. In this article, we will demonstrate how to build a .NET MAUI Windows app to digitize documents using traditional scanners (HP, Canon, Epson,...

Creating a mobile app that scans and decodes Machine Readable Zones (MRZs) is essential for many industries, including travel, security, and identification verification. With .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), developers can build cross-platform applications for Android and iOS using a single codebase, streamlining development and maintenance. In this tutorial, we’ll...

.NET MAUI simplifies cross-platform app development by enabling a single codebase for multiple platforms. The Dynamsoft Capture Vision MAUI Bundle offers powerful APIs for document scanning, barcode reading, and MRZ recognition. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a .NET MAUI document scanner that can capture, normalize, and share...

In an increasingly digital world, the ability to efficiently digitize documents is paramount for businesses and organizations aiming to streamline operations, enhance data accessibility, and improve overall productivity. To achieve comprehensive document digitization capabilities, it’s essential to support a variety of scanner protocols, including TWAIN, WIA, SANE, ICA, and eSCL....

Machine Readable Zones (MRZ) are vital components of passports, visas, and other identification documents. Typically located at the bottom of a document’s front page, MRZs contain essential information such as the document type, holder’s name, issuing country, and expiration date. In today’s digital landscape, MRZ recognition is an invaluable tool...

Dynamsoft Document Viewer SDK provides a comprehensive set of APIs for viewing and annotating PDFs and images in web applications. By integrating the SDK into your Blazor web app, you can create a powerful document management system with advanced features such as PDF rendering, page navigation, image quality enhancement, and...

Blazor is a powerful framework by Microsoft that enables developers to build interactive web applications using C# instead of JavaScript, bringing the full power of .NET to the browser. While Blazor allows you to write most of your web app in C#, calling existing JavaScript APIs remains an inevitable part...

In today’s fast-paced digital environment, efficient document management is vital across industries such as finance, healthcare, legal, and education. Traditional paper handling methods are not only slow but also susceptible to errors and inefficiencies. Document PDF scanner apps offer a modern solution by streamlining workflows and significantly boosting productivity. This...

In .NET MAUI development, both BlazorWebView and WebView are used to display web content, but they serve different purposes and are designed for different scenarios. The BlazorWebView is specifically designed to host Blazor components in a .NET MAUI application, allowing you to reuse Blazor components and share code between web...

Last week, we developed a desktop document scanner application using .NET MAUI and the Dynamic Web TWAIN REST API. We encountered an issue where the app’s UI, constructed with MAUI controls, behaved inconsistently on Windows and macOS. For instance, the Picker control functioned well on Windows but not on macOS....

Dynamsoft used to offer both the .NET TWAIN SDK and the Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK. However, the .NET TWAIN SDK is no longer maintained, and the focus has shifted to the web-based Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK. Despite this shift, you can still build a desktop document scanner application in .NET...

Recently, Dynamsoft released a new .NET MAUI Barcode SDK for building barcode scanning applications on Android and iOS. In this tutorial, we will use Visual Studio Code to create a .NET MAUI Barcode Scanner from scratch. Our application will decode barcodes and QR codes from both image files and camera...

In today’s fast-paced digital world, the ability to quickly and accurately capture data is paramount. Barcode scanning has emerged as a reliable and efficient solution for automating data entry across various applications. This tutorial explores webcam barcode reading on Windows, demonstrating how to build a powerful barcode detection application using...

ASP.NET Core enables C# server-side applications to run on Windows, Linux, and macOS. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps of building a web document scanning application with ASP.NET Core and Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK. What you’ll build: A cross-platform web document scanning application using ASP.NET Core MVC...

The Capture.Vision.Maui NuGet package aims to equip developers with a .NET MAUI library, featuring a camera view and various image processing functions. This library streamlines the development of .NET MAUI applications across multiple platforms, including Windows, Android, and iOS. Previously, we introduced barcode scanning capabilities within the .NET MAUI library....

In our previous article, we mentioned how to create a Web Barcode Scanner using RazorBarcodeLibrary. The library is built on top of the Dynamsoft JavaScript Barcode SDK, which encapsulates the camera access and barcode reading logic in JavaScript. In fact, Dynamsoft also provides an independent JavaScript camera library, named Dynamsoft...

Last week, we developed a RESTful service using .NET C# and Twain.Wia.Sane.Scanner library to scan documents from TWAIN, WIA, SANE, and eSCL scanners. This week, we will repurpose the C# code to construct a Blazor WebAssembly application that digitizes documents directly from a web browser, all without the need for...

RESTful service can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection, irrespective of platform or device. Deploying a commercial SDK as a RESTful service can simplify integration, improve accessibility, and provide better control over the deployment environment and usage. In this article, we’ll delve into how you can effortlessly integrate...

Having previously developed libraries for Node.js, Flutter, Java, and Python to integrate with Dynamic Web TWAIN Service’s REST API, we’re now turning our attention to .NET. In this article, we introduce a .NET library to interface with the REST API, facilitating document scanning from TWAIN, WIA, SANE, and eSCL compatible...

Machine-Readable Zone (MRZ) recognition is an essential technology in various sectors, including security, immigration, and automation. Its application in Android software can enhance a wide array of services by enabling quick and accurate data capture from identification documents like passports and ID cards. This article aims to guide you through...

A Mobile Check Capture app, also known as a Check Deposit app or Mobile Check Deposit app, is a mobile application that allows users to deposit checks using their smartphones or tablets. It provides a convenient way for individuals and businesses to deposit checks without visiting a bank branch or...

This article aims to help C# developers to build desktop .NET MRZ (Machine Readable Zone) scanner applications with Dynamsoft C++ Label Recognizer SDK. We firstly build a .NET class library for detecting MRZ zone and extracting MRZ text from passport, ID card, and travel documents. Then we demonstrate how to...

Suppose you are a C# developer who wants to use Dynamsoft Document Normalizer to implement a desktop document scanner application. Since Dynamsoft Document Normalizer is a C/C++ library, you may encounter some interoperability issues when using it in your C# project. In this article, we will help you build a...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader, as an enterprise-class barcode and QR code SDK, supports many platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi OS, and Web) and programming languages (Python, Java, Swift, C#, Cpp, and JavaScript). There are many sample projects distributed in Dynamsoft GitHub repositories and official website. To help developers...

HTML5 is universally supported across all modern browsers — Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, and Opera — on both desktop and mobile, as well as WebView components used in native Android and iOS apps. This cross-platform reach means a single ASP.NET web application can serve all users without maintaining separate native...

Since .NET 6 Preview 3, it is possible to host Blazor web applications in a WinForms/WPF app using the BlazorWebView control. Behind BlazorWebView is WebView2, which uses Microsoft Edge as the rendering engine to display the web content in native apps. Developers can now adopt a hybrid app approach, utilizing...

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 have an existing project written in .NET framework and want to...

This tutorial aims to help .NET developers use Dynamic .NET TWAIN in Unity projects. Download Unity Dynamic .NET TWAIN Unity Infinite Loading Issue It’s weird when running the Unity editor first time, I got stuck on the loading screen. If you suffer from the issue, remove %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Unity, %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Unity, and %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Unity, and...

If you have a USB camera, how can you build a simple C# camera application on Windows 10? There are three options:  WIA (Windows Imaging Acquisition), DirectShow and MediaCapture. After trying some sample code that downloaded from CodeProject and GitHub, I got the conclusion: 1. WIA is not good because...

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 stay with your scanners and...

HTML5 WebSocket facilitates the communication between web browsers and local/remote servers. If you want to learn a simple websocket example, creating a WebSocket Server in C## and a Web client in JavaScript, you can refer to SuperWebSocket, which is a .NET implementation of Web Socket Server. In this article, I...

If you ever developed some iOS or Android apps, you should know that for localization, the strings should be stored in some resource files and dynamically loaded in apps. What about Windows applications? When I tried to store strings in a resource file in Visual Studio, I met some problems...

Yesterday, my colleague told me that there was a weird issue that existed in our WPF sample code for Dynamic .NET TWAIN. What we wanted to implement was to create two projects, and start one application from another. The problem was, when we started the invoked application independently, it worked...

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 many organization’s document management workflow. For this...

Control web cameras from browsers with Dynamic Webcam API Introduction to the Webcam Library Dynamic Webcam SDK is a browser plugin which enables users to acquire images from a webcam, edit and then upload/save them to a database, web server or local disk. Also, it can capture a live video stream into...