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I need to add a web-based capability to allow users to scan images using a local TWAIN or WIA compliant scanner or digital camera and then upload those images to the server. (The scanning experience should be integrated into the web UI as opposed to just allowing them to scan it locally using whatever tools and then upload the resulting file(s) in the web UI).

I've found Microsoft's Silverlight WIA implementation and Asprise's JTwain applet each of which do roughly what I'm looking for, but only handle either WIA or TWAIN and do so using different technologies.

Is anyone aware of a library/product/etc. that would provide similar functionality with access to both TWAIN and WIA? Ideally, something cross browser independent, but should it come to it, it could potentially be restricted to IE. On the outside, I'd even be open to separate solutions using the same technology (e.g. a WIA java applet, or a TWAIN silverlight app, or two apps in whatever language that separately do both).

Thanks

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Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the folks over in the Twain working group have recently distributed this,

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wia-on-twain/

WIA on Twain toolkit.

ascarb