Hello,
I know some of you will discourage scanning through a web page, unfortunately, it is a requirement.
I want to view my options in the situation, and maybe, some of you may have already gone through this and had a workable solution.
Problem is, we need to have a universal approach in scanning documents through the webpage without any external helper apps that does this for us.
I know this is a tall order, I would simply want to know the best next thing.
Thank you!
I've seen this done with a Java applet successfully. ActiveX might also work.
Here is what appears to be a working TWAIN applet.
Here is question with answers related to TWAIN and Java.
You can't do it with just a browser and JavaScript, full stop, you'll need to include something else -- a Java applet, a .Net "No Touch Deployment" application (mostly IE-only), a Flash or Shockwave application, something like that. In the Windows world, Flash has a huge installed base on browsers, but I don't know if it can do what you want (not knowing much about Flash). Next up would be a signed Java applet.
The user will then need to give your thingy permission to access local resources, a process that varies depending on the technology used. It's quite a simple process with a signed Java applet, much more involved and awkward for the end user with a .Net "No Touch Deployment" app.