RE: Camera / Scanner / Image Capture

> From: Randell Jesup [mailto:randell-ietf@jesup.org]
> 
> On 1/31/2013 3:50 PM, Carlo Razzeto wrote:
> > I have been reading this document
> > (http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia.html#local-content)
> > "Media Capture and Streams". I have been interested in the creation of
> > an HTML 5 methodology to capture sill images to be processed into a
> > document storage system. Basically you can think of it this way, there
> > is an order in our software, and now the customer has need to scan
> > documents and attach these to the order to satisfy legal requirements.
> >
> > Our current methodology relies on Active X controls which are browser
> > specific and subject to frequent failure. Rather, I would like to have
> > system which instructs the browser to launch the OS scanning and
> > camera's device controls, allow the user to select the desired
> > scanning or camera device, and then pull in the image data from the
> > device.
> >
> > I have seen much focus on getUserMedia in the direction of live
> > streaming media like web cams or audio devices (which is great). But
> > almost completely missing is a still image capture capability
> > illustrated by this document
> > (http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/), or if its there it seems
> > so buried that one struggles to find it.
> >
> > Is there any thought towards adding this camera / scanner type
> > functionality to getUserMedia? Thanks much,
> 
> In addition to what's been mentioned, Firefox's mozGetUserMedia() on
> Android (only) supports "picture: true" and when invoked will ask the OS
> to pop up an app capable of taking a picture  (and have the user select
> from available apps - camera, gallery, etc).  (I'll note that
> temporarily this is broken in Nightly, but works in Aurora/Beta/Release.)
> 
> We don't expect picture:true to  be a final API; it was meant to drive
> discussion of this general issue (and as such has largely failed so far).

Also, for these simple interactions, the HTML Media Capture spec could fit the bill:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/

Received on Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:18:27 UTC