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Thread Take a Snapshot with a WebCam
Thu, Nov 26 2015 3:24 AMPermanent Link

Pasquale

Web Pos srl

I need to take a picture of a document via a webcam . about that I would have thought to use the library

https://github.com/jhuckaby/webcamjs

I just can not integrate it properly into the EWB project .

Anyone can help me ?
Mon, Nov 30 2015 10:52 AMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Pasquale,

<< I need to take a picture of a document via a webcam . about that I would have thought to use the library

https://github.com/jhuckaby/webcamjs

I just can not integrate it properly into the EWB project . >>

I would definitely recommend *not* using anything in a browser app that requires Flash to run.  Have you considered an alternative method, such as having the user select a document, uploading that document to a web server module or back-end application, and then having the *back-end* code perform the image capture ?

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com
Fri, Dec 4 2015 12:58 AMPermanent Link

Pasquale

Web Pos srl

Sorry I do understand with an example that there is danger in using this function webcam ?



Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

Pasquale,

<< I need to take a picture of a document via a webcam . about that I would have thought to use the library

https://github.com/jhuckaby/webcamjs

I just can not integrate it properly into the EWB project . >>

I would definitely recommend *not* using anything in a browser app that requires Flash to run.  Have you considered an alternative method, such as having the user select a document, uploading that document to a web server module or back-end application, and then having the *back-end* code perform the image capture ?

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com
Fri, Dec 4 2015 12:57 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Pasquale,

<< Sorry I do understand with an example that there is danger in using this function webcam ? >>

It's not that it's dangerous, rather that it probably won't work in a lot of browsers because they have Flash disabled or blocked.  And the underlying non-Flash API is not widely supported in all browsers.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com
Tue, Dec 8 2015 1:28 AMPermanent Link

Pasquale

Web Pos srl

So which way I ought to allow the use of the webcam in the web platform ?



Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

Pasquale,

<< Sorry I do understand with an example that there is danger in using this function webcam ? >>

It's not that it's dangerous, rather that it probably won't work in a lot of browsers because they have Flash disabled or blocked.  And the underlying non-Flash API is not widely supported in all browsers.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com
Tue, Dec 8 2015 1:28 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Pasquale,

<< So which way I ought to allow the use of the webcam in the web platform ? >>

The basic answer is "you can't".

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com
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