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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 persistant 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...

AirPrint MFPs (Multifunction Printers) are printers that are compatible with Apple’s AirPrint technology. The eSCL (eXtensible Scanner Control Language) protocol, a driverless scanning protocol, is a part of the AirPrint technology. It facilitates wireless scanning functionality on AirPrint MFPs. Users can discover AirPrint MFPs on the same network and initiate...

A Razor class library project is essentially a project that includes Razor components and other related files that can be shared and distributed as a NuGet package. To develop a document scanning application that works for both desktop and web, we can package Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK into a Razor...

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...

Patch Code is a barcode developed by Kodak for use in automated scanning. It is mainly used to classify or organize documents. Several documents may need to be scanned and we have to save them into different PDF files. Instead of running several separate jobs (loading the scanner with each...

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 Should Know About Dynamic Web TWAIN Build a Document Scanning Web...

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. Section 1: Setting Up the Flutter Project...

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...

Assume you have a document scanner at home or in the office. Is it possible to use iPhone or iPad web browsers to scan documents from the scanner? Before Dynamic Web TWAIN v18, the answer is no, because there is no standard JavaScript API for scanner access. Remote scan is...

Dynamsoft recently released a new version of Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK v18.0. The new version supports eSCL protocol, which allows you to connect to network scanners. In addition to integrating eSCL into Dynamsoft service for Windows, Linux and macOS, Dynamsoft also brought an eSCL scanner communication application to Android platform....

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...

Dynamic Web TWAIN has a new scanDocument API since v17.2, which makes it easy to capture documents using mobile cameras with its document border detection and editing feature along with ready-to-use UIs. In this article, we are going to create a mobile document scanning app using Ionic Vue. Ionic is...

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...

Dynamic Web TWAIN has a new scanDocument API since v17.2, which makes it easy to capture documents using mobile cameras with its document border detection feature. Along with the RemoteScan feature that connects physical document scanners, we can now build a decent mobile document scanner with web technologies. In this...

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 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) lets us build apps for any Windows device and publish them to the Store. It is the latest technology of Microsoft to create client apps. We can use the new visuals and features of the latest version of Windows in a UWP app. Dynamic Web...

Django is a popular framework of Python for web development. In this tutorial, we will create a web application with Django and Dynamic Web TWAIN. About Dynamic Web TWAIN Python Development Environment Python 3.7.9 python --version Django 3.2.7 python -m pip install Django python -m django --version Overall steps The...

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...

Since from version 17.1, Chromes OS comes into the supporting list of Dynamic Web TWAIN. The supported desktop operating systems of Dynamic Web TWAIN now include Windows, Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi OS and Chrome OS. This article helps Chromebook users to install Dynamic Web TWAIN service in Chrome OS. Building...

Since version 16.1, Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) has added a remote scan feature. If there is a device running a background scanning service (Dynamsoft Service), other devices can access it via an Intranet along with a proxy service to use scanners connected to that device, which makes it convenient to...

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...

Blazor is a framework for building interactive client-side web UI with .NET1. Users can create interactive UIs in C# instead of JavaScript. Server-side and client-side app logic can both be written in .NET. In the previous article, we’ve created a barcode reader with Blazor using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. In this...

Dynamic Web TWAIN is a JavaScript library designed for document scanning and document management. This tutorial guides through React development. You will see how to combine Reactjs and Dynamic Web TWAIN to build a simple web application which can acquire images from a document scanner and load images from local...

Have you ever thought about how to create a Web document scanning application using Ruby on Rails? In this tutorial, we go through how to create a Rails project with Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) SDK for loading, scanning and uploading document files. Installation Dynamic Web TWAIN 17.0 Ruby 2.5.1 sudo...

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...

As the world’s top scanner programming SDK, Dynamic Web TWAIN features a lot of compelling functionalities. By upgrading to the latest version, any web document scanning app built with Dynamic Web TWAIN can be compatible with mobile devices seamlessly. What will happen if you invoke the scanner control APIs on...

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...

Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK v15.2 brings a set of new APIs for classifying images by tags. In this article, I will share how to use the latest JavaScript APIs to implement a simple web document management app from scratch. Building Document Management App in JavaScript Create an HTML file and...

Laravel is a PHP Framework. This article shares how to use Dynamic Web TWAIN to scan and upload documents in a Laravel project. Installation Composer Laravel: composer global require laravel/installer Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK v17.1. Copy Dynamic Web TWAIN Resources folder to the public folder of the project. PHP 7.x...

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...

RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader that implements Asynchronous Module Definition(AMD) API for in-browser use. Similar to require() used in Node.js, we can use requirejs() to load any JavaScript module for web apps. In this post, I will share how to use Dynamic Web TWAIN with RequireJS. If...

Dynamic Web TWAIN has been widely used for developing web browser based document scanning apps. Is it possible to embed Dynamic Web TWAIN APIs into a Chrome app or extension? In this post, I want to share what I went through while building a Chrome extension. Chrome App When opening...

ZK is a Java Web framework that similar to GWT. Some developers have no idea how they can integrate DWT (Dynamic Web TWAIN) into a ZK Web project. I have successfully made it. The process is not too hard, but a little bit tricky. First ZK Web Project with Eclipse...

Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) is a Web-based TWAIN scanning solution, which could be deployed to Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Users could visit DWT apps via any HTML5-comptible Web browsers on Windows or Mac. To facilitate the process of Web project deployment, we can use Docker. In this post,...

GWT (Google Web Toolkit), a development toolkit that allows developers to build complicated JavaScript Web applications in Java, has been used by many outstanding products, such as Google AdSense, Google AdWords, and so on. It is open source, and completely free. In this post, I’d like to share how to...

Last week, I introduced how to create a Web application for document imaging and uploading with Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK and Node.js. In this tutorial, I’d like to share a more convenient way to implement such a solution in Go. You can just copy the client-relevant resources and page files...

In this tutorial, I’d like to share how to implement a simple Web application for document imaging and uploading with Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK (DWT) and Node.js. Download and Installation Dynamic Web TWAIN download Node.js download Creating a Web Server with Node.js Run your command line tool to install two...

Some Java developers asked a question about how to use Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) to upload image files when building a Web application with Struts. In this tutorial, I’d like to make a detailed explanation. How to Upload Files with Struts Using NetBeans IDE, we can quickly create a Struts...

Simplify your document scanning and editing process_ With the development of digital devices (scanners, webcams) and information delivering and sharing online, more users choose to manage and store documents online, such as legal papers, contracts and IDs. This perfectly solves the problems of traditional paper management: Waste of papers; Waste...