In the digital age, PDFs are one of the most common formats for sharing and archiving documents. They preserve layout, fonts, and images across platforms. However, not all PDFs are created equal. While many contain actual text data, others—especially scanned documents—are essentially just images wrapped in a PDF container. This...

Building a web-based OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application has never been easier with modern JavaScript libraries. In this comprehensive tutorial, we’ll create a powerful OCR app that can process images, multi-page TIFFs, and PDFs, converting them into searchable PDF documents - all running entirely in the browser with free tools....

Driver’s license scanning has become essential for identity verification, age validation, and automated data entry across various industries. With Dynamsoft’s powerful computer vision APIs, web developers can easily build comprehensive driver’s license scanning applications using JavaScript. This tutorial demonstrates two approaches: a foundational implementation for learning core concepts, and a...

Building a seamless document processing experience on the web requires more than just capturing documents. You also need intuitive ways to display and annotate e-documents directly in the browser. In this tutorial, we will walk through integrating two powerful JavaScript libraries from Dynamsoft: Dynamic Web TWAIN for scanning and capturing...

The Dynamsoft Barcode Scanner JavaScript SDK (v10.5) is built on top of the Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK, providing ready-to-use user interfaces and advanced APIs to simplify the development of web-based barcode scanner applications. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to: Integrate the SDK into your HTML5 + JavaScript app Scan...

A mobile document scanner app typically includes features such as document capture, editing, and saving as PDF files. Since we’ve already created a web application with similar functionality using HTML5, JavaScript, and the Dynamsoft Document Viewer SDK,we can integrate that web app into an Android/iOS WebView to quickly develop mobile...

The Dynamsoft MRZ Scanner JavaScript SDK is a powerful, high-level wrapper built on top of the lower-level Dynamsoft Capture Vision API, designed to help developers add Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) recognition to any web application with ease. It is open-source and provides a clean and customizable API for scanning MRZ...

Modern web applications increasingly require advanced image processing capabilities. Technologies like barcode detection, Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) recognition, and document rectification have become essential across industries from retail checkout systems to airport passport scanners and digital document management solutions. This comprehensive guide demonstrates how to implement all three capabilities in...

In the digital era, extracting information from documents and vehicle IDs has become increasingly important for web-based applications. Machine Readable Zones (MRZ) and Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) can now be scanned directly in the browser using modern web technologies. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a web-based MRZ...

FastAPI is a modern, async-ready Python web framework for building APIs. It wraps low-level ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) interfaces and is built on top of Starlette and Pydantic. The combination of FastAPI and Uvicorn is ideal for creating high-performance web applications. In this article, you’ll learn how to build...

Nuxt is a free and open-source framework with an intuitive and extendable way to create type-safe, performant and production-grade full-stack web applications and websites with Vue.js. In this article, we are going to build a document scanner using Nuxt.js and Dynamic Web TWAIN. It can scan documents via scanners using...

Nuxt is a free and open-source framework with an intuitive and extendable way to create type-safe, performant and production-grade full-stack web applications and websites with Vue.js. In this article, we are going to build a barcode and QR code scanner using Nuxt.js. Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer is used to access the...

Capturing and saving documents, such as receipts, invoices, and contracts, as PDF files is a common requirement for many businesses. In this article, we enhance our web document editor project built with Dynamsoft Document Viewer by adding the capability to detect and save documents as PDFs. The document detection feature...

An e-signature is a digital form of a handwritten signature that allows individuals to sign documents electronically. It has become an essential tool for businesses and organizations to streamline the signing process, enabling documents to be signed in just a few clicks from anywhere in the world. In this article,...

In today’s digital world, barcodes have become an integral part of many industries, including healthcare, logistics, retail, and more. A significant use case is in medical forms, where 1D and 2D barcodes, such as DataMatrix, are embedded within PDF documents. These barcodes contain crucial information such as patient identification, medical...

Inserting barcodes into PDF documents can significantly streamline document management, tracking, and data processing workflows. Barcodes serve as unique identifiers, enabling automated data entry, quick retrieval, and enhanced security. In this article, we’ll demonstrate how to leverage HTML5, JavaScript, and the Dynamsoft Document Viewer SDK to generate and embed barcodes...

In many industries, a document scanner app is essential for capturing, editing, and uploading documents such as invoices and receipts to the cloud. By leveraging the Dynamsoft Document Viewer SDK, you can build a Progressive Web App (PWA) document scanner that enables users to capture images, crop them, combine multiple...

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 digital landscape, web applications often need to handle sophisticated tasks like loading, viewing, and manipulating image files. This article will walk you through building an Angular web application that enables users to load and view image files, add annotations directly to those images, and seamlessly save the annotated...

The Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK (DCV) is a modular and unified SDK that integrates barcode scanning, document detection, MRZ recognition, and more under a single pipeline-based API. One of its key modules is the MRZ scanner, which provides machine-readable zone recognition for passports, visas, and other travel documents. This article...

The Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK offers advanced features for document detection and rectification. In this article, we will integrate document detection and rectification capabilities into the Angular project created in the previous tutorial. This article is Part 3 in a 5-Part Series. Part 1 - How to Implement Web TWAIN...

Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK consists of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader, Dynamsoft Label Recognizer, Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer, Dynamsoft Document Normalizer, and Dynamsoft Code Parser. In this article, we will demonstrate how to build Angular barcode and QR code scanner apps from scratch using the Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK. This article is Part...

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...

In today’s fast-paced world, efficiently managing and tracking parcels is crucial for businesses. The use of 1D and 2D barcodes has revolutionized the way parcels are labeled, scanned, and processed. Additionally, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology has enabled the digitization of text on parcels, facilitating automated data extraction and processing....

Starting from version 18.0, the Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK has expanded its support for the eSCL protocol. This enhancement enables the SDK to support not only USB-connected scanners but also network scanners. Furthermore, Dynamsoft has released an Android app for eSCL communication, benefiting both Android and Chromebook users. This breakthrough...

Node.js, Express, and Jade are technologies often used together to build web applications. Node.js runs the server, handling HTTP requests and responses. Express is used to simplify the routing and middleware setup, managing everything from routes to handling requests and views. Jade is used as the templating engine within Express....

The Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK is renowned for its capabilities in document scanning, uploading, editing, and saving. In this article, we will explore the image tagging and grouping feature for document management applications. For instance, you can tag images with a date, project name, or customer name, enabling you to...

In the digital era, managing documents efficiently is crucial for businesses and individuals alike. With the rise of web technologies, scanning and uploading documents through web applications has become a sought-after feature. This article introduces a practical way to implement document scanning and uploading in a web application using Dynamic...

When developing or selecting an MRZ (Machine Readable Zone) recognition SDK, the primary challenge lies in finding an appropriate dataset for testing. Acquiring genuine MRZ images is challenging, and due to privacy concerns, they aren’t publicly accessible. Therefore, crafting MRZ images becomes a practical solution. Fortunately, there’s an open-source Python...

Image cropping is a common image processing task where we only need a potion of an image. In most cases, we make a rectangular selection box for cropping. But for cases like document scanning, we need to make a polygonal selection box. Perspective transformation is needed to normalize the document....

Document capture functionality is an essential aspect of any document management system, allowing users to capture digital images of physical documents through a variety of means, including scanners and mobile cameras. Dynamic Web TWAIN helps users easily integrate document capture functionality into their web-based document management system, enabling them to...

Dynamic Web TWAIN is well-known for document scanner programming. It provides a set of JavaScript API to simplify the way of integrating document scan functions into web applications. Most of the time, we use Dynamic Web TWAIN with its built-in UI. However, the default UI may not be suitable for...

Barcodes and QR codes are essential tools across various industries, including healthcare, finance, and education. In this article, we’ll explore how to leverage Dynamsoft’s powerful barcode recognition technologies to create an online barcode and QR code scanning application using Python Django. This article is Part 4 in a 7-Part Series....

The MediaDevices.getUserMedia() API is the standard way to access cameras from web browsers. While it’s relatively straightforward, building a complete web camera viewer still requires significant effort. Until recently, there were no ready-to-use JavaScript camera widgets. However, with the release of the Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer library, implementing a browser-based camera...

Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computing environment that lets you combine live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text in a single document. If you have Anaconda installed, Jupyter Notebook is included by default. This tutorial walks you through building a Python barcode scanner inside a Jupyter Notebook — upload...

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. What you’ll build: A browser-based document management app in Angular that acquires images from...