Interfacing with the end-user's scanner from a webapp (web/scanner integration)
Consider the following scanning procedure in a typical document handling webapp: The user scans a document using a scanner connected to his/her computer The scanned image is saved locally on the user's computer as a BMP/JPG/TIF/PNG file The user hits a file upload "Browse.." button in the web application The user is presented with a file dialog which he/she uses to locate the scanned image The user hits "Upload image" and the scanned image is uploaded to the server where it is stored This process is quite complicated and I'd like to reduce the number of steps in order to make the process more