In certain offices, such as banks, passport processing centers, tax and accounting businesses, etc., staff there often have the need to scan IDs, forms, and other documents. Sometimes, they might also need to take a picture of customers’ faces. For digitization of various kinds of documents, the most commonly used devices are scanners or document cameras. However a simple webcam might also be good to add. This is a device many customers have at home. So, your services could be extended to letting customers submit documents from their homes too.
Problem with document scanners
But document cameras alone are usually not enough to integrate into common workflow scenarios. Your developers need to customize the features based on your business rules. It will not be easy.
First, some document cameras don’t provide a software development kit. Document camera vendors that do offer a kit usually only provide an ActiveX control. The beauty of this technology is that Internet Explorer is better supported. But,
it does not support any other more modern browsers, such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and more. So, typically this means
it will not provide cross-browser support.
Another drawback is that the development kit features and capabilities vary for different document cameras. If we use more than one type of devices, we need to customize the code for each model.
Product’s design
To quickly develop a high-quality electronic imaging system, assuming your budget allows it, you may try a third-party image acquisition development kit. Take the Dynamsoft Camera SDK as an example. It offers a JavaScript API that
captures images from webcams and document cameras using a web browser. The web-based development control enables live streaming of video clips and photo capture using just a few lines of JavaScript code.
It supports a variety of server-side programming technologies and deployment environments, including ASP, JSP, PHP,
ASP.NET and other common server-side programming languages. It also provides cross- browser support.
Post time: Feb-12-2022