RE: Camera / Scanner / Image Capture

Carlo,
  We are about to publish the first draft of a recording specification to go with getUserMedia.  It contains the ability to take a photo snapshot from a video stream.  I'm not sure if it does exactly what you want, but I suggest looking at it when it comes out and then sending us further comments.

- Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Carlo Razzeto [mailto:crazzeto@fujifilm.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:51 PM
To: public-media-capture@w3.org
Subject: Camera / Scanner / Image Capture

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,

Carlo Razzeto

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Carlo Razzeto
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crazzeto@fujifilm.com
888-385-4633 ex 5113


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