Question

I have to integrate my CardScan (from http://cardscan.com/) with my PHP so I can get any information from the card scanned with the device.

Any clue about where I should start?

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I’ll try to integrate it with my Ubuntu development enviroment, and the device will be conected to my computer via USB.

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I’m givin a try to SANE, but it doesn’t find the device: https://askubuntu.com/questions/24297/problem-with-sane-and-cardscan-cant-find-the-device

Answer 1

You’ve not provided a lot of the information we would need to answer your question accurately/completely.

PHP is usually run on a webserver to provide a UI via a browser over HTTP – in this architecture the PHP code has no access to the hardware on the client. It is possible to write CLI / Daemon and even GUI applications using PHP integrating directly with the window manager – is this what you are talking about? What OS will this run on?

Since CardScan appears to be a simple scanner, then if the PHP code is running on the machine where the scanner is attached, then it should simply be a matter of running an external program to talk to the scanner and capture the image.

• for Linux/Unix use SANE
• for MSWindows, use a CLI TWAIN tool – e.g. twain commander
• Apple MacOs seems to use a twain API – but you’ll need to search to find tools – however it also supports SANE