Scan a document straight to my site - asp.net

I want to place a button in my ASP.NET Web Forms projec, that connects directly to my Scanner (hardware). Scan & Upload.
Is there a way to do so?
(Activex, etc.)
Thank you

Did you try TwainX, it says.
"Easily integrate Scanners into your web-based applications with a minimum of ... of indirection"
http://twainx.sourceforge.net/
If this is an internal scanner accesible to your company, there is sense in doing this, but if the general public has to do it, they will have to install the activex and all, not recommending your approach. Might as well ask the user to scan it, and then upload the image.

This article - Scan and Upload Documents in ASP.NET MVC App using Dynamic Web TWAIN - may help you as an alternative

I found this post that includes source code that uses the ASP.NET to show how to scan on the client side and then upload the images onto the server:
http://support.leadtools.com/CS/forums/20960/ShowPost.aspx

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How browser extenstion will works and communicate with website?

I am new to asp.net and learning various things. I want to make browser(For Fire Fox only) extension that will interact with asp.net website.
Purpose of this extension is to send data from client side to server side without opening website and save this data to database under user profile
Any help, self learning resources, Books on extension will be appreciated.
Thank you!!
Install addon-sdk from here and then see pageMod:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tutorials/Installation
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/High-Level_APIs/page-mod

Live streaming video integration in C# ASP.NET Website

I am going to make a website which will show me live streaming. Of course technologies are C# ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC. For testing purpose, Now I want to use my PC's webcam to shoot video and it will be displayed on the .aspx or say .cshtml page directly on the same time. So let me know what will I do? If anyone from India, just see the Saibaba Live Darshan official website and I just need to make same type of site.After successful testing,I will deploy and host this application on hosting server. There is a temple where I will integrate this system so that everyone can take live darshan on their web browsers. So please guide me how to achieve this. Tell me all possible ways and if you have complete project code,then let me know.
You can use HTML5/getUserMedia to capture a video stream from the users webcam.
You can then display this on a html5/canvas for the user, or if you prefer you can use WebRTC to stream it to a server.
You can also look into projects such as this one: https://code.google.com/p/telepresence/
If you prefer to implement it yourself you can look here: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/02/cross-browser-camera-capture-with-getusermediawebrtc/

Uploading large files in IIS Asp.net [duplicate]

I've done a good bit of research to find an upload component for .NET that I can use to upload large files, has a progress bar, and can resume the upload of large files. I've come across some components like AjaxUploader, SlickUpload, and PowUpload, to name a few. Each of these options cost money and only PowUpload does the resumable upload, but it does it with a java applet. I'm willing to pay for a component that does those things well, but if I could write it myself that would be best.
I have two questions:
Is it possible to resume a file upload on the client without using flash/java/Silverlight?
Does anyone have some code or a link to an article that explains how to write a .NET HTTPHandler that will allow streaming upload and an ajax progress bar?
Thank you,
Austin
[Edit]
I realized I do need to be able to do resumable file uploads for my project, any suggestions for components that can do that?
1) Is it possible to resume a file upload on the client without using flash/java/Silverlight?
No. The actual HTTP protocol itself does not support resume of partial uploads, so even if you did use flash or silverlight, you'd still need to use something else like FTP on the server.
I've "solved" this problem in the past by writing a custom client application in C# which broke the file down into small chunks (2meg), transmitted those separately, and then the server combines them all back together.
2) Does anyone have some code or a link to an article that explains how to write a .NET HTTPHandler that will allow streaming upload and an ajax progress bar?
While this doesn't solve the 'resume' problem, I've used SWFUpload on the client side and it worked brilliantly. It provides a smart file browser (where you can prompt the user for only jpeg files, etc) and upload progress tracking, all without needing to modify your server at all.
It's not possible to resume an upload using standard HTML file input control, because the whole file gets submitted with the HTTP request.
I've used NeatUpload in the past, which gives you a progress bar. It's under an LGPL license, so you don't need to pay for it and it's open source.
Nothing more to add about the resume problem.
I used (and keep on using) telerik radUpload and I am quite satisfied with it
(it can even be used in medium trust mode which was quite important for me). The only problem I had (and was not able to fix) is to upload files bigger than 2GB...
SlickUpload is pretty solid and a lot of big companies use it from what the site says.
This is probably too late for your project, but POW Upload have now implemented auto resume upload in their new version. We're about to implement it on our site.

ASP.NET: Record Sound From A Web App?

I'm contemplating adding a voice recording to some posts on my site. I'm wondering if there is an ASP.NET library out there that will allow me to:
Press a button to start recording
Record what I'm saying through my comp's built in microphone
Save the file as a .wav or some other popular sound file
As of now, I will be the sole user of this function, but it would still be nice to have in my bag of tricks in case I want to pull it out later for a client.
It is not doable without the help of a plugin. Browsers simply don't support voice recording.
You could choose from:
Make a SilverLight applet.
The flashPlayer can record too.
find a java Applet that can do this.
Make an activeX Plugin (since you have affinity to asp)
use your os provided voice recorder, save the file and upload it. Playback via browser is easy
You solution will involve a flash componet (outside of rendering the markup that invokes the flash component). The ASP.NET stack won't be able to do it. Silverlight doesn't seem able to do it.
Here is how.
Here's the problem: the browser does not allow this level of hardware access by an application. You could however achieve this either through Java, Flash or ActiveX (Yuk! don't do it) should the end user allow the access to occur however there are a number of cavaets. Here's a great thread where like-minded people like yourself are approaching the same challenge:
http://drupal.org/node/69242
If I were cornered to do this I would create a signed Java Applet.
not directly from asp.net since asp.net is server side and you need access to the client side microphone - however the new adobe flash player has the ability to access the mircophone so in theory you could use flash to record then upload to your site.
See ListenUp sdk. I found a bulletin board called english-test.net that is using the sdk to post voices.
You'll need some client-side code to achieve this as regular HTML doesn't support audio input and upload.
The ActiveX control Active Audio Record 2.0 claims to support recording audio and uploading it to an ASP.NET web server. I've never tried it though.

How to get list of drives on local system using ASP.Net

I am going to develope a module in ASP.Net. In this module I want to get the list of drives of the local system where this page is displaying. I have already tring with System.IO.... etc. but it gives me the server drives.
I want to get the list of LOCAL drive where page is displaying on server drives.
Thank you.
Do you mean the client's computer's drives?
That is not possible.
EDIT: However, it is possible with ActiveX or a browser plug in.
This absolutely cannot be done with neither server-side ASP.NET, nor with client-side JavaScript. You can try writing an ActiveX "control" (or how are these called?) or Java applet.
Fortunately you can not do that.
This is impossible, since your ASP.Net code runs on the server. The client only sees the rendered page (HTML and javascript).
Remember: your C# or VB.Net code runs on the server for the explicit purpose of sending html/javascript to the client browser. It does not get to peek directly at the "local" system, and the only thing the "local" system knows about is the html/javascript rendered on the server. That's just how the web works.
Furthermore, javascript runs in a sandbox that does not include any way to enumerate the local drives. This is by design.
So the only way to do this is via plug-in like flash, silverlight, or activex.
You can write a .NET control which is downloaded from your website to the clients' PC and looks at the drives there. As this could be abused (you could steal the users' files) you will have to convince the user to download the control in the first place. Look here for more info:
ClickOnce Deployment overview

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