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Feature request: capture images through a document camera


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How much are you willing to pay Serif to develop a driver and settings database? And that's not all, an interface for USB must also be programmed. And a few other things. That quickly adds up to development costs in the six- to seven-digit range.

And as far as the question of the scanner connection is concerned, the scanning software should be able to open the image/document with a configured application after the scan.

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Hi @fcast & welcome to the forums :) 

I add a vote to your feature request as my partner would love such feature in their work. Probably in V3 or later, which is years and years away — but with Serif themselves saying (at some point) that they sold 3x more than their projections and that they have awesome new features prepared throughout V2 — who knows really :) 

 

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16 hours ago, Komatös said:

How much are you willing to pay Serif to develop a driver and settings database? And that's not all, an interface for USB must also be programmed. And a few other things. That quickly adds up to development costs in the six- to seven-digit range.

And as far as the question of the scanner connection is concerned, the scanning software should be able to open the image/document with a configured application after the scan.

I wonder if Affinity would be able to bypass this and use the OS's built in interfacing. Photo can uses Apple's CoreRAW engine to Develop RAW photos, I don't see why they wouldn't be able to call an API or call to use something like AirPrint or Windows' equivalent, unless it's an OS limitation.

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On 12/5/2022 at 2:56 AM, Mr.TightyPants said:

I wonder if Affinity would be able to bypass this and use the OS's built in interfacing. Photo can uses Apple's CoreRAW engine to Develop RAW photos, I don't see why they wouldn't be able to call an API or call to use something like AirPrint or Windows' equivalent, unless it's an OS limitation.

Exactly what I intended: call OS's built in interfaces (USB Video Class/DirectShow/TWAIN/WIA/ImageKit, the latter three used by Photoshop since some 20 yrs for scanners)

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On 12/4/2022 at 10:13 AM, Komatös said:

That quickly adds up to development costs in the six- to seven-digit range.

On MacOS, I am using a (long abandoned but still functional up to Mojave) freeware app from 2012 to scan barcodes via the built-in MacBook Pro camera.
I seriously doubt that the developer had "costs in the six- to seven-digit range" to implement this.

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^ That said, using the built-in Mac camera with Affinity is as easy as:

  1. open Photo Booth
  2. take a selfie
  3. copy (cmd-C)
  4. Affinity Photo/Designer > File > New From Clipboard, or in all three: Paste

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