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Can i scan from a Mobile Device with a Twain Direct Application but without having any OEM Driver/App installed in Mobile? …. Does Twain Direct Cloud Application or Mobile Application automatically locates & picks any Twain Supported Scanner via Twain Direct ? How to get Twain Direct in from any Play Store ?
Kevin NealHi Shoaib,
Yes, you can scan from a Mobile Device with TWAIN Direct without installing any driver on the mobile device. Because TWAIN Direct is a web service API, there is no driver installation needed at all. Whether you are developing a mobile, desktop or web application the TWAIN Direct API is exactly the same so there is no such thing as a TWAIN Direct mobile version.
1) One way to do TWAIN Direct scanning using a mobile device is using the web browser of the mobile device. In this case, you need a TWAIN Direct web scanning application and just make sure the web application is optimized for mobile viewing.
2) However, if you want to use a native mobile application then the process is simple, as you mentioned. The basics of the entire process are below:
– Authenticate to the application (an application function)
– List scanners (using TWAIN Direct API)
– Select scanner (using TWAIN Direct API)
– Scan (using TWAIN Direct API)
– Preview and/or send to destination (an application function)Here are a few videos demonstrating using TWAIN Direct to scan using a mobile device:
– TWAIN Direct mobile using Kodak Alaris scanner: https://vimeo.com/393734605
– TWAIN Direct mobile using Fujitsu/Ricoh scanner: https://vimeo.com/393737099
– P3iD DoxaScan & DocsInTheClouds TWAIN Direct mobile: https://p3idtech.com/videos/TWAIN_Direct_mobile.mp4Here is a link to get source code for both iOS and Android for TWAIN Direct:
– TWAIN Direct mobile iOS: https://github.com/twain/twain-direct-ios
– TWAIN Direct mobile Android: https://github.com/twain/twain-direct-androidRegarding getting a TWAIN Direct application from the Google Play Store, Visioneer has TWAIN Direct mobile applications for select Visioneer and Xerox scanners here: https://www.visioneer.com/visioneer-vast-network-internet-mobile-capture/
• Note that you need a TWAIN Direct-supported scanner to use any of these solutions
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