If you’re wondering how to choose a document capture solution for digitizing paper records, the answer depends on four factors: volume, document type, user location, and integration architecture. A high-speed production scanner that processes 200 pages per minute may be overkill for a small office digitizing a few contracts a...

SharePoint is a web-based collaboration and document management platform developed by Microsoft. It is commonly used by organizations to create internal websites (often called “intranets”), store and share files, and manage content and business processes. SharePoint pages are made up of Web Parts — reusable components you can add without...

When dealing with bulk document scanning, one of the biggest challenges is making scanned documents searchable and organized. Unlike digital-born documents, scanned images are essentially pictures—you can’t search them, copy text from them, or organize them by content. This is where Optical Character Recognition (OCR) becomes invaluable. What You’ll Build...

In today’s digital workplace, the ability to quickly scan, process, and understand documents is crucial. Whether you’re digitizing invoices, processing legal documents, or managing medical records, having an efficient document workflow can save hours of manual work. When it comes to digitizing large volumes of documents, the challenge isn’t just...

Organizations of all sizes face a common challenge: efficiently managing the vast documents that power their operations. Manual data entry is a persistent bottleneck—time-consuming, error-prone, and costly—that hurts productivity and increases expenses. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology solves this by converting scanned documents into fully searchable, editable text for modern...

Imagine this scenario: An operator at an insurance firm has just spent 20 minutes scanning a 500-page claim file. Suddenly, the browser freezes and crashes due to memory exhaustion. All that work is lost instantly. For developers building web-based document management systems, this is a nightmare. Browsers like Chrome and...

SANE is an API to access document scanners, which is mainly used in UNIX systems. It has several advantages over TWAIN (another document scanning API that is mainly for Windows): TWAIN does not separate the user-interface from the driver of a device. This, unfortunately, makes it difficult, if not impossible,...

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...

Document scanning applications are essential for modern businesses, yet building them from scratch is often time‑consuming and complex. In this tutorial, we will explore how to use Claude Sonnet 4 (Claude AI agent) to quickly and efficiently create a professional web document scanning application with the Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK....

Document scanning workflows often involve processing multi-page documents that contain separator pages or blank pages used for organizational purposes. Manually identifying and removing these blank pages while splitting documents can be time-consuming and error-prone. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to implement intelligent document splitting using Dynamic Web TWAIN’s powerful...

Since version 17.1, Dynamic Web TWAIN has supported Chrome OS, in addition to Windows, Linux, macOS, and Raspberry Pi OS. This guide applies to versions 17.1 through 19.x. It covers installation, version-specific package names, and post-installation configuration such as certificate handling and host settings. What you’ll build: A fully functional...

A modern web-based document management application is essential for organizations looking to digitize their paper-based workflows and streamline document processing. In this tutorial, we’ll build a professional document management application that demonstrates the four core features essential for modern document processing: scan, split, merge through drag-and-drop, and save as PDF....

In this article, we are going to talk about how to scan documents from the command line (CLI), which allows scanning and saving documents to be automated and/or scripted. There are different APIs to access document scanners and here is a comparison table about them. Feature TWAIN WIA (Windows Image Acquisition)...

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...

Need to scan paper documents directly from a .NET Blazor WebAssembly app? Dynamic Web TWAIN is a JavaScript-based document scanning SDK that supports TWAIN, WIA, SANE, ICA, and eSCL scanner protocols across Windows, macOS, and Linux. This tutorial shows you how to connect a Blazor WebAssembly app to physical scanners...

In today’s digital age, efficient document management is crucial for businesses and individuals alike. Integrating document scanning capabilities directly into web applications can significantly streamline workflows, allowing users to digitize and manage documents with ease. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to leverage the power of the Dynamic Web TWAIN...

Barcodes are commonly used to identify retail products. We can also use them to mark documents. For example, we may need to scan a batch of forms. Each form contains several pages and there is a barcode on the first page denoting a unique form number. We can use the...

When scanning documents via scanners, we may get misoriented document images. The use of automatic document feeding makes it happen more often. We can use image processing to detect the orientation. There are many ways to do this. For example, in Latin script text, ascenders are more likely to occur...

In this article, we are going to create a lightning web component to access document scanners in Salesforce, the famous CRM system. Adding extra features to your Salesforce system can provide an integrated user experience. The document scanner feature will be provided by the Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK. It provides...

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...

Shadow DOM is a web standard designed to encapsulate HTML and CSS into web components. It allows for the creation of separate DOM trees and specifies how these trees interact with each other in a document. Polymer is a library developed by Google to make it easier to create reusable...

Laravel is a PHP Framework. This article shares how to use Dynamic Web TWAIN to scan and upload documents in a Laravel project, enhancing web document management capabilities. What you’ll build: A Laravel web application that scans physical documents via a TWAIN-compatible scanner and uploads the captured images to your...

Django is a popular Python framework for web development. In this tutorial, we will create a web application using Django and Dynamic Web TWAIN. What you’ll build: A Django web application that acquires documents from a TWAIN-compatible scanner in the browser and uploads the scanned images to the server —...

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 previous article, we demonstrated the implementation of a web application for scanning and uploading documents using Dynamic Web TWAIN and Node.js. In this article, we will guide you through achieving the same functionality using Go. The process closely mirrors the Node.js implementation, allowing you to reuse client-side resources...

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...

Whether we scan documents via document scanners or cameras, we may end up getting document images with bad quality. In this article, we are going to talk about how to evaluate the quality of scanned document images so that we can recapture the document to get a better image. A...

A black-and-white binary image consists of pixels that can have one of exactly two colors: black and white. Converting an image to black and white has some usages: File size reduction: a 1-bit binary image requires less data for storage than a 24-bit color image. Image processing: many image processing...

Grayscale images are composed exclusively of shades of gray. They are commonly stored with 8 bits per sampled pixel, which allows 256 different intensities to be recorded. Converting an image to grayscale has some usages: File size reduction: an 8-bit grayscale image often requires less data for storage than a...

Sometimes, we may need to flip a media element in a web app. For example, we may need to flip a video element streaming from a camera to match what we actually see or correct scanned document images that are flipped. What you’ll build: A browser-based tool that flips or...

In a document-scanning web app, image resizing is useful as it can correct the proportion of scanned documents and increase the DPI of document images to meet printing requirements. In this article, we are going to talk about how to resize an image with JavaScript. One way is using Canvas...

Sometimes, we may need to rotate an image on a web page, like showing a loading animation. In a document-scanning web app, we need to rotate skewed document images or document images scanned in the wrong direction. What you’ll build: An HTML5 page that rotates images using three approaches —...

Converting PDFs to images is a common task in our daily work. We can use the images for archiving and further editing like OCR. With Dynamic Web TWAIN, a JavaScript document scanning library which has built-in support for various file formats, we can convert PDF to images in HTML5. In...

In the previous article, we built a JavaFX demo app to scan documents using Dynamic Web TWAIN Service’s REST API. The demo app can scan documents via protocols like TWAIN, WIA, SANE, and ICA and save the documents into a PDF file using PDFBox. In this article, we are going...

Lit is a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components. At Lit’s core is a boilerplate-killing component base class that provides reactive state, scoped styles, and a declarative template system that’s tiny, fast and expressive. In this article, we are going to build a web component with LitElement to...

Scanning documents into a digital form can help companies save physical space, improve data retrieval, reduce costs, improve collaboration, etc. Sometimes, we may come across very large scanned document files or files scanned with a low visual quality. In this article, we are going to talk about aspects related to...

Scanned documents often contain skewed or crooked images. They do not look good and are not friendly for OCR. In this article, we are going to use OpenCV and Python to deskew scanned documents based on text lines. What you’ll build: A Python script that detects and corrects skew in...

Dynamic Web TWAIN is an SDK which enables document scanning from browsers. Under its hood, a backend service named Dynamic Web TWAIN Service is running to communicate with scanners via protocols like TWAIN, WIA, eSCL, SANE and ICA. The service runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Starting from Dynamic Web...

In a world that is increasingly digital, the ability to transform physical paper documents into electronic files by scanning them from a multi-function printer (MFP) has become a fundamental requirement for businesses of all sizes. Scanning paper documents helps create a more organized and efficient workspace. E-documents foster better collaboration...

Dynamic Web TWAIN is a document-scanning SDK which makes it possible to access document scanners in the browser. It comes with the support of various image formats. We can use it to create an on-premises online image converter. You can press the button above to have a try. It has...

Tag Image File Format, abbreviated TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images. It has several differences from most other image file formats: TIFF allows a flexible set of information fields called tags. TIFF allows a flexible combination of colorspace, bitdepth/datatype, and compression scheme. TIFF...

WebDAV stands for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning. It is an HTTP extension that makes it easy to create, read, and edit files hosted on remote Web servers. Many HTTP servers or file sync and share applications support this protocol like Apache, Lighttpd, Seafile and Nextcloud. In this article, we...

Full-text search is a process of examining all of the words in every stored document to find documents meeting a certain criteria (e.g. text specified by a user). It is possible for the full-text-search engine to directly scan the contents of the documents if the number of documents is small....

IndexedDB is a low-level API for client-side storage of significant amounts of structured data, including files/blobs. It can be used to save images like scanned documents on the client for persistent storage. In this article, we are going to talk about how to use Dynamic Web TWAIN to scan documents...

Large language models (LLMs) are emerging which can help us in tasks like text summarization, translation, question answering, etc and OpenAI’s ChatGPT is one of the state-of-art models which is available via its web or API interfaces. ChatGPT can be useful for document management. One use case of it is...

Paper documents are still ubiquitous in our everyday work, like invoices, checks and printed books. It takes effort to manage them. With Dynamic Web TWAIN, we can build a web application to scan documents from document scanners. But further steps are required to better manage the documents and OCR is...

Dynamic Web TWAIN is an SDK which enables document scanning and viewing from browsers. It can display PDF files in a customizable viewer. In this article, we are going to build a web component with Stencil.js to wrap Dynamic Web TWAIN as a PDF viewer so that we can embed...

Next.js is the recommended framework to create React applications with extra features like server-side rendering and an intuitive router. In this article, we are going to create a document scanning app with Next.js and Dynamic Web TWAIN. What you’ll build: A browser-based document scanning app using Next.js and the Dynamic...

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...

Oracle APEX (also known as APEX or Oracle Application Express) is an enterprise low-code development platform from Oracle Corporation that is used to develop and deploy web applications on Oracle databases. APEX provides a web-based integrated development environment (IDE) that uses wizards, drag-and-drop layout, and property editors to build applications...

Previously, I created a flutter_web_twain to assist developers in building web-based document scanning applications with Flutter and Dynamic Web TWAIN. In this article, I will demonstrate how to integrate Dynamic Web TWAIN into a Flutter Windows desktop application using Flutter Windows webview plugin. What you’ll build: A Flutter Windows desktop...

FileMaker is a cross-platform relational database application. It integrates a database engine with a graphical user interface (GUI) and security features, allowing users to modify a database by dragging new elements into layouts, screens, or forms.1 It has become a low-code tool to build apps for businesses. There are some...

Chrome extensions are software programs, built on web technologies (such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) that enable users to customize the Chrome browsing experience.1 In this article, we are going to write a Chrome extension to add the document scanning function to web pages. Dynamic Web TWAIN is used to...

Quasar is a Vue.js-based framework, which allows web developers to quickly create responsive websites/apps. It can use Electron to build multi-platform desktop apps. In this article, we are going to build a document scanning desktop app with Quasar and Electron. Dynamic Web TWAIN is used to provide the ability to...

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.1 The basic types of content in a PDF are: Typeset text stored as content streams; Vector graphics for illustrations and designs that consist of shapes...

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...

There are many web developers who prefer using Angular and Dynamic Web TWAIN to build web document scanning and management applications. The official Dynamic Web TWAIN samples are written in JavaScript. Although TypeScript is compatible with JavaScript, it is not just a copy-and-paste job to use these JavaScript code in...

A progressive web application (PWA) is a type of application software delivered through the web1. It is able to be installed like a local app so that we can access it later without an Internet connection. In this article, we are going to build a document scanning desktop app with...

Tag Image File Format, abbreviated TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images. It is a complex format, defining many tags in each file. TIFF was created as an attempt to get desktop scanner vendors of the mid-1980s to agree on a common scanned image...

Tauri is a framework for building desktop apps for all major platforms. Developers can integrate any front-end framework that compiles to HTML, JS and CSS for building their user interface. The backend of the application is a Rust-sourced binary with an API that the front-end can interact with. Different from...

Dynamic Web TWAIN is an SDK which makes it possible to scan documents in browsers. Selenium is a suite of tools for automating web browsers, like Firefox, Edge and Chrome. Primarily, it is for testing purposes, but it can also serve for other tasks. In this article, we are going...

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...

Nowadays, web technologies have been used to create cross-platform apps. There are Capacitor for mobile development and Electron for desktop development. We can also use web technologies in existing apps. For example, the popular Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, uses JCEF (Java Chromium Embedded Framework) to create plugins. In this article,...

The Clipboard API allows web applications to read and write the clipboard’s contents, which makes it convenient to paste scanned documents to other applications like Word, email clients and load images from the clipboard in a Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) application. Here is a demo video of copying scanned documents...

Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT)’s Remote Scan feature makes it possible to scan documents from your scanner or multi-function printer (MFP) directly to any device. You may wonder what other network scanning options exist. This article is going to give a brief overview of scanning over the network and why DWT’s...

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. What you’ll build: A JavaScript web app that scans documents in the browser using Dynamic Web TWAIN, uploads them to a...

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...

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/Conferencing-Recording-Classroom-Real-time-Definition/dp/B08V4WLPX1/ A document camera has the following benefits: Users don’t have...

Dynamic Web TWAIN has added some exciting features related to the mobile platform since its version 16. Document capturing via mobile cameras, 16.0 PDF Rasterizer mobile edition, 16.0 LoadImageEx supports mobile platform, 16.1 Acquiring images from a remote scanner, 16.1 The scanDocument API which makes it easy to call a...

Wrapping an HTML element as a component is a new fashion of front-end development. In this article, we will take a tour of building a component-based document scanning app using Vue.js and Dynamic Web TWAIN. To make our application look modern, we hire Vuetify, one of the most popular libraries, to...