Re: Camera / Scanner / Image Capture

It is my understanding at least this spec is being left by the wayside 
in favor of getUserMedia. At the very least, support seems to be 
non-existent.

On Wednesday, February 06, 2013 4:17:38 PM, Travis Leithead wrote:
>> 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 Thursday, 7 February 2013 08:04:07 UTC