Dynamic Web TWAIN Service is the core component of the Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK. It enables you to acquire documents from document scanners over a local network using REST API. This API overcomes the limitations of traditional browser-based scanning solutions by allowing you to capture documents from scanners connected to...

Apple provided a sample project demonstrating how to create a virtual scanner device a long time ago. The last revision was on June 12, 2012. In this article, we will build the sample project using the latest Xcode on macOS Sequoia and use it to test front-end document scanning applications...

A virtual scanner is a software-based solution that mimics the functionality of a physical document scanner. It allows developers and testers to simulate scanning operations without requiring actual hardware, making it an essential tool for testing and development. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to create a virtual scanner device...

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...

Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Since Dynamic Web TWAIN is also a cross-platform JavaScript library for document scanning and management, we can combine Electron and Dynamic Web TWAIN to implement a desktop document scanning and management application for Windows, Linux, and...

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....

ASP.NET Core enables C# server-side applications to run on Windows, Linux, and macOS. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps of building a web document scanning application with ASP.NET Core and Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK. This article is Part 1 in a 5-Part Series. Part 1 - Building...

Last week, we developed a RESTful service using .NET C# and Twain.Wia.Sane.Scanner library to scan documents from TWAIN, WIA, SANE, and eSCL scanners. This week, we will repurpose the C# code to construct a Blazor WebAssembly application that digitizes documents directly from a web browser, all without the need for...

Having previously developed libraries for Node.js, Flutter, Java, and Python to integrate with Dynamic Web TWAIN Service’s REST API, we’re now turning our attention to .NET. In this article, we introduce a .NET library to interface with the REST API, facilitating document scanning from TWAIN, WIA, SANE, and eSCL compatible...

Dynamic Web TWAIN Service streamlines document scanner programming for developers by providing a unified REST API that works with TWAIN, WIA, eSCL, SANE and ICA drivers. We have previously released a Node.js package and a Flutter plugin to interact with Dynamic Web TWAIN Service’s REST API. In this article, we...

Microsoft Power Apps is a low-code development platform that enables you to build custom apps tailored to your business needs. Within Power Apps, a ‘Canvas App’ is a specific type of app that allows you to design your interface by dragging and dropping elements onto a canvas, similar to designing...

Dynamic Web TWAIN Service provides compatibility with all major document scanner protocols, including TWAIN, WIA, eSCL, SANE and ICA, across Windows, Linux and macOS platforms. Initially part of Dynamic Web TWAIN, it will soon offer its core scanning functionalities through a REST API in an upcoming release. This article guides...

Dynamsoft’s Web TWAIN SDK has long been a market leader in web-based document scanning, empowering numerous organizations to develop their own document management systems. The SDK consisted of two main components: a Dynamic Web TWAIN Service for scanner management and a JavaScript library for front-end development. Previously, this service could...

When building a TWAIN-compatible application and there is no physical scanner available, you can use a virtual scanner application for development and testing. TWAIN working group has released a TWAIN DS sample on GitHub. In this article, I will detail how to set up the development environment, as well as...

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 Should Know About Dynamic Web TWAIN (Include JS libs, API docs and...