In today’s digital world, we often need to convert, merge, and edit documents from various sources. Whether you’re working with PDFs, Word documents, images from your phone, or scanned documents from a physical scanner, having a unified tool that handles all these formats is invaluable. In this tutorial, we’ll build...

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...

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...

A document scanner app is a software application that uses your device’s camera to capture images of physical documents and convert them into digital formats. These apps typically support scanning documents, photos, receipts, business cards, and more. Document scanner apps are useful across various industries, including education, business, finance and...

Last week, we completed a Flutter document scanning plugin for the web — a great starting point. This week, we’re extending its capabilities to the desktop by integrating the Dynamsoft Capture Vision C++ SDK. The plugin will now support both Windows and Linux platforms. In this article, you’ll learn the...

Dynamsoft Capture Vision provides a set of APIs for detecting document edges and normalizing documents based on detected quadrilaterals. The JavaScript edition of the SDK is available on npm. In this article, we’ll first demonstrate how to use the JavaScript APIs in a web application, and then show how to...

Dynamic Web TWAIN Service is the core component of the Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK. It enables you to acquire documents from document scanners over a local network using REST API. This API overcomes the limitations of traditional browser-based scanning solutions by allowing you to capture documents from scanners connected to...

In office environments, network-connected physical document scanners from manufacturers like HP , Canon , Epson , and Brother often support protocols such as ESCL (AirPrint) or ICA (Image Capture). However, for scanners that do not natively support these protocols, you can use third-party services like Dynamic Web TWAIN to enable...

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,...

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...

Dynamic Web TWAIN offers two methods for scanning documents from a web page: the HTML5/JavaScript API and the RESTful API. The former is suitable for web applications that require a high level of customization, while the latter is ideal for enterprise-class web applications, such as Salesforce, Oracle APEX, and Microsoft...

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...

Dynamic Web TWAIN Service streamlines document scanner programming for developers by providing a unified REST API that works with TWAIN, WIA, eSCL, SANE and ICA drivers. We have previously released a Node.js package and a Flutter plugin to interact with Dynamic Web TWAIN Service’s REST API. In this article, we...

Microsoft Power Apps is a low-code development platform that enables you to build custom apps tailored to your business needs. Within Power Apps, a ‘Canvas App’ is a specific type of app that allows you to design your interface by dragging and dropping elements onto a canvas, similar to designing...

Dynamic Web TWAIN Service provides compatibility with all major document scanner protocols, including TWAIN, WIA, eSCL, SANE and ICA, across Windows, Linux and macOS platforms. Initially part of Dynamic Web TWAIN, it will soon offer its core scanning functionalities through a REST API in an upcoming release. This article guides...

Dynamsoft’s Web TWAIN SDK has long been a market leader in web-based document scanning, empowering numerous organizations to develop their own document management systems. The SDK consisted of two main components: a Dynamic Web TWAIN Service for scanner management and a JavaScript library for front-end development. Previously, this service could...

Dynamsoft Document Normalizer SDK helps developers to quickly build document scanning applications. It provides a set of APIs to detect document edges and normalize document images. Currently, the SDK only supports C/C++, Android, iOS, Xamarin.Forms and JavaScript. Although there is no Java edition available for download yet, we can make...

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...