How can i invoke a paper scanner using php code?

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Lijimol v r picture Lijimol v r · Dec 5, 2017 · Viewed 9.2k times · Source

How can I invoke a paper scanner using php code?

I have already used Dynamic Web TWAIN for scanning, but it is not free.

I need an open source code to scan.

Please help me. Thank you in advance.

Answer

Pascut picture Pascut · Dec 5, 2017

PHP is a server side language and cannot interact with client side hardware. You can use a web-based TWAIN SDK to scan documents in your PHP app. Check out this article which might help: http://www.dynamsoft.com/blog/document-imaging/how-to-scan-documents-in-php

You can also use Scanner.js: https://github.com/Asprise/scannerjs.javascript-scanner-access-in-browsers-chrome-ie.scanner.js

Maybe you can try phpSANE: https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpsane/

phpSANE is a web-based frontend for SANE written in HTML/PHP so you can scan with your web-browser. It also supports OCR.

PHP Printer library: https://github.com/mike42/escpos-php

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