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Web Document Scanner SDK

Overview​

The Web Document Scanner SDK is a powerful and easy-to-integrate software development kit for turning smartphones and tablets into fast and reliable document scanners.

Features include:

  • User guidance: Ease of use is crucial for large user bases. The on-screen user guidance helps even non-tech-savvy users create perfect scans.

  • Automatic capture: The SDK automatically captures the document when the device is optimally positioned over the document. This reduces the risk of blurry or incomplete document scans compared to manually triggered captures.

  • Automatic cropping: The SDK automatically straightens and crops scanned documents, ensuring high-quality document scan results.

  • Image filters: Every document scanning use case has specific image requirements. With the SDK’s custom filters, you can tailor the document scanning image output to your backend system. They include grayscale options, multiple binarizations, and other settings to optimize your document scanning for various document types.

  • Document Quality Analyzer: This feature automatically rates the quality of the scanned pages from “very poor” to “excellent.” If the quality is below a specified threshold, the SDK prompts the user to rescan.

  • Multiple export formats: The SDK supports several output formats for exporting digitized documents, like JPG, PDF, and TIFF. This ensures your downstream solutions receive the best format to store, print, or share the digitized document – or to process it further.

With the Ready-To-Use UI Components (RTU UI), you can integrate the SDK's scanning functionalities with only a few lines of code. This way, you can benefit from tried-and-true UX design and straightforward integration while still being able to customize the visual appearance to match your brand.

If you want full control over the scanner's appearance, you can instead use the SDK's Classic UI Components (Classic UI) to build a fully customized scanning experience yourself.

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Requirements​

Since the Web SDK is based on WebAssembly, older browsers are unfortunately not supported.

WebAssembly and the Scanbot Web Document Scanner SDK are supported as of the following versions:

  • Edge 16+
  • Firefox 53+
  • Chrome 57+
  • Safari 11+

The Scanbot Web Document Scanner SDK is optimized for mobile browsers.

The latest versions of the following mobile browsers are supported:

  • Android: Chrome, Firefox, Edge
  • iOS 14.5+: Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge

You can also check WebAssembly support via "Can I use...".

Example apps​

Check out our Angular, React and plain JS example apps on GitHub:

Live demo​

You can also try the Web Document Scanner SDK in your browser with the demo app.

If you need further information or are interested in licensing the Scanbot SDK, please get in touch with our solution experts.

Changelog​

Pleaser refer to the changelog for the latest SDK version.

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