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Accessing scanner at client side from a web page without applet


I want to acces a scanner at client side, before I was using java applet without problem but after chrome has decided to not support java what can I do. If there's solution with JS, Jquery or other language please tell me


Solution

  • Atalasoft has a web scanning toolkit that should meet your needs: Atalasoft WingScan product page

    The product does not use browser-specific plugins and therefore works nicely in all modern browsers (IE8+, Chrome, Firefox).

    Architecturally, there is a small local component that should be installed, which exposes RESTful web service. Web page uses standard JavaScript/jQuery to communicate with the service and scan/import/enhance images.

    Here is the online demo, so you could try it out right away: Wing Scan Demo page

    The scanning component is based on the EZTwain library, and it includes a number of image processing algorithms that improve quality of scanned images (deskew, autorotate, blank page detection, etc.)

    You can optionally license and use embedded VRS technology, which I have to say is impressively good at cleaning up scans.