Building Scanning Function

[Wang Hsin Yoong]

Dear all,
HELP.....I now developing a java web based application and now need to add in a scanning function inside there.
I need to scan a document or photo with the web application and then store it into MySQL database.
Is that possible to do?
Can someone experienced this help me or give me some opinion...?

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Good day....

[Chetan Parekh]

You required J2SE (Applet/Swing/AWT/Core Java) components for that. Usually Scanning Device Manufacturer provides APIs to integrate their device in other application. Just contact manufacturer and ask for API to access scanning functionality from Java.

[Wang Hsin Yoong]

Thanks for reply.
I have a question here. Hope someone can help me out.
I need a OCR support in my system, I found that OCR API is not available free. Is there someone had developed some systems that using OCR API before? Can I develop an OCR myself? or where can I get references?

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