Electron is a framework for building desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. As web technologies have emerged as the best choice for building user interfaces, more and more developers are adopting Electron to build their applications. In this article, we are going to create an Electron desktop app to...

The litecam Node.js camera SDK lets you capture webcam frames and process them in server-side JavaScript. It wraps the LiteCam C++ camera library as a native Node.js addon built with node-gyp and node-addon-api, and it runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. In this article, you will build the camera addon...

You can decode 1D and 2D barcodes from a multi-page PDF in Node.js with the dynamsoft-capture-vision-for-node package: one CaptureVisionRouter.captureMultiPagesAsync() call returns one result per page, and each result’s originalImageTag.pageNumber tells you which page every barcode came from. This saves you from manually rasterizing PDF pages or iterating page by page...

You can recognize the MRZ (Machine Readable Zone) on passports, ID cards, and visas in Node.js with the official dynamsoft-capture-vision-for-node package: a single CaptureVisionRouter.captureAsync(imagePath, 'ReadPassportAndId') call returns both the parsed document fields (surname, given names, document number, dates of birth and expiry) and the raw MRZ lines. The SDK ships...