Contact us
Get started
Loading...
Important Notice - Forums is archived

To simplify things and help our users to be more productive, we have archived the current forum and focus our efforts on helping developers on Stack Overflow. You can post new questions on Stack Overflow or join our Discord channel.

Product icon
TUTORIAL

Vaadin lets you build secure, UX-first PWAs entirely in Java.
Free ebook & tutorial.

Calling javascript synchronously by Enver Haase, 2 weeks ago
Recent Posts
Vaadin Forum3. Vaadin 6, 7, 8

Get image from scanner or another device in client

Alvaro Jose Garcia Cohen
7 years ago Jan 19, 2016 8:06pm

Hello,

I need to get image (scan documents, use web camera, ) from client and i don't know how to do it.

Can  anybody help me?

Thanks!!!

Ilia Motornyi
7 years ago Jan 20, 2016 9:09am

Vaadin itself does not support this. There are html solutions based on flash, silverlight, or htm5 media capture. Each of them has own pros and cons and requires some work to do. 
You can start here
https://dev.opera.com/articles/media-capture-in-mobile-browsers/demo/
and
https://dev.opera.com/articles/media-capture-in-mobile-browsers/demo/
 

+1
Alvaro Jose Garcia Cohen
7 years ago Jan 20, 2016 7:35pm

Alvaro Jose Garcia Cohen: Hello,

I need to get image (scan documents, use web camera, ) from client and i don't know how to do it.

Can  anybody help me?

Thanks!!!

Thanks a lot!! , it's gonna take a while, but i gotta do it, i don't wanna make another software for this module.