Features
Image Capture from all Mainstream Web Browsers on Windows, macOS, Linux and Mobile
Supported Systems and Browsers
| OS and Technology | Supported Client-Side OS | Supported Client-Side Browsers | Supported Server-Side OS |
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Windows
TWAIN scanner APIs;
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x86-64 Windows 7/8/2008/2012/2016 and 10/11; 32-bit and 64-bit |
Firefox v61+ Chrome v68+ IE 9+ Microsoft Edge |
All, including
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TWAIN and ICA APIs; HTML5 |
x86-64, ARM641 OS X 10.6.8+ |
Firefox v61+ Chrome v68+ Safari v7+ |
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SANE APIs; HTML5 |
x64, ARM641, MIPS2 Ubuntu 12.0.4+, Debian 8+, Fedora 24+, 64-bit |
Firefox v61+ Chrome v68+ |
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Mobile cameras; HTML5; WASM |
Android 8+ |
Firefox v61+ Chrome v68+ |
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| iOS 12+, iPadOS 12+ |
Safari v12+ Chrome v68+ |
Note 1: If you are using an ARM64 device, please contact sales@dynamsoft.com for testing.
Note 2: If you are using a MIPS-based device, please contact sales@dynamsoft.com for testing.
Technical Features
| Image Capture from Document Scanners | Mobile Web Capture from Cameras | |
|---|---|---|
| Document Scanning and Image Capture | ||
| Supports up to TWAIN specification 2.3 | Windows Client Only | N/A |
| Supports up to TWAIN specification 1.9; ICA compatible | macOS Client Only | N/A |
| SANE compatible | Linux Client Only | N/A |
| Supports capturing via built-in mobile camera | N/A | |
| Optional disk caching mechanism for high volume scanning (thousands of pages) | N/A | |
| Built-In Auto Document Feeder (ADF) and multiple image acquisition | N/A | |
| Offers duplex scanning mode | N/A | |
| Supports blank page detection | N/A | |
| Built-in wizard mode intelligently manages TWAIN states | N/A | |
| Supports setting up image acquisition parameters (resolution, pixel type, bit depth, brightness, contrast, page size, unit, etc.) | N/A | |
| Provides native and disk file image transfer modes | N/A | |
| Buffered memory transfer mode | Windows Client Only | N/A |
| Image Capture from Document Scanners | Mobile Web Capture from Cameras | |
|---|---|---|
| Document Editing | ||
| Provides GUI and non-GUI image editors | ||
| Built-in basic image editing interfaces such as Rotate, Crop, Mirror, Flip, Erase, and ChangeImageSize | ||
| Supports adding colored rectangles to images | ||
| Supports text annotation | ||
| Offers image swapping feature | ||
| Supports clearing specified areas of an image and filling cleared areas with color | ||
| Built-in zooming | ||
| Provides multiple image selection | ||
| Provides image de-skewing |
| Image Capture from Document Scanners | Mobile Web Capture from Cameras | |
|---|---|---|
| Saving, Uploading and Downloading | ||
| Downloads / uploads images via HTTP/HTTPS | ||
| Downloads / uploads images via FTP (currently no FTPS support) | ||
| Save and upload images as BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and PDF files | All Except for BMP | |
| Supports saving images as multi-page TIFF and multi-page PDF | ||
| Offers saving images as a base64 string | ||
| Provides support for cookie and session integration | ||
| Supports binding cookie during the upload process | ||
| Provides RLE, G3, G4, JBIG2, LZW, PackBits, JPEG, JPEG2000, and TIFF compression options | ||
| Upload progress dialogue box allows you to cancel uploads at any time | ||
| Supports downloading from HTTP stream | ||
| Built-in JPEG, PNG, PDF and TIFF encoder enables compression of acquired images | ||
| Uploads metadata for each image to the server or database (SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access etc.) as part of the image upload process | ||
| Supports chunked uploading when the data size is large | ||
| Behind the scenes multi-thread uploading |
| Image Capture from Document Scanners | Mobile Web Capture from Cameras | |
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| Opening Local Files | ||
| With Dynamsoft’s PDF Rasterizer SDK, supports loading text-based, image-based and hybrid PDF files | ||
| Supports loading local JPEG, PNG, BMP, single-page and multi-page TIFF files | ||
| Load DIB from the clipboard | ||
| Load images from Base64, and binary |
| Image Capture from Document Scanners | Mobile Web Capture from Cameras | |
|---|---|---|
| Security | ||
| Opening Local Files | ||
| Should the SDK exit unexpectedly, all cached data is destroyed | ||
| There is optional domain binding in the licensing process | ||
| Authorization required for accessing local files | ||
| Authorization required for accessing scanners or webcams | ||
| Customize supported certificate to use in place of the Dynamsoft default | ||
| Digitally signed by VeriSign | Windows Only | |
| ActiveX Edition marked safe for initializing and scripting | Windows Only | |
| Supports Windows Authentication, Forms Authentication and Basic Authentication | ActiveX Only | |
| Compatible with Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Protected Mode | ActiveX Only | |
| Proxy connections supported | ||
| Supports SSL for HTTP uploading and downloading | ||
Scanned image data or cached scanned data is encrypted
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Limits access of a scanner device to only the registered web scanning application
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Productivity
Greatly Reduced Development Time
It can take months for you to become familiar with the TWAIN specification and build a TWAIN plugin from scratch. With Dynamic Web TWAIN, you can implement TWAIN in days. With most applications, you can implement TWAIN support with no more than a few lines of code.
Browsers Change Often
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other browser developers are constantly updating their browsers. You can rest assured that Dynamsoft will keep Dynamic Web TWAIN up to date so your application can continue to run smoothly.
Even Greater Time Savings
By tapping into Dynamsoft’s TWAIN knowledge base via our Virtual Developer Service, the total time needed to build your scanning solution with Dynamic Web TWAIN could be reduced from months to days.
Reduced Product Time to Market
The speed of your product delivery is very important. Dynamic Web TWAIN can significantly reduce development time.
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