Dynamsoft Camera SDK

Dynamsoft Camera SDK is a tool that enables developers to implement webcam capabilities into their software projects, in order to take screenshots and capture video footage using a webcam compatible with USB Video Class (UVC) as well as a browser-based webcam library. It works with ASP.NET (C#/VB.NET), PHP, JSP, ASP, JavaScript and HTML.

The utility offers support for Internet Explorer 6 and higher, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, along with the IIS, Tomcat and Nginx web servers, among others. It doesn't depend on any third-party frameworks.

Once installed, Dynamsoft Camera SDK opens an offline HTML file from its installed directory, in order to demonstrate how easy it is to build a grab page. Images from the camera can be grabbed with the click of a button after setting the preferred camera resolution and making adjustments to the exposure, gain, brightness, contrast, gamma, and saturation.

Each picture is displayed on the right of the camera frame, so you can view them side by side. Moreover, you can rotate the picture left or right or by 90 degrees, mirror, flip or crop the image. Once everything is set, you can upload the picture to an HTTP server in BMP, JPEG, single- or multi-page TIFF, PNG, single- or multi-page PDF format. Both sync and async modes are supported.

Video streams can be embedded in web browsers. It's possible to have multiple image viewers, which can be created and destroyed dynamically. Images can be added to the viewer from URL or local files as well as converted to base64 strings.

When creating PDF documents, you can set the author, title, producer, subject, compression type, creator and other properties. For JPEGs, the quality can be adjusted. Also, when users visit your website, they are requested to set the webcam access authorization mode (allow once, always allow, block once, always block).

All aspects considered, Dynamsoft Camera SDK provides web developers with an easy-to-use tool for embedding webcam footage into their sites, take snapshots, and upload images in various formats or PDF.