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| title | Using the RESTful API |
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By default, Dynamic Web TWAIN consists of the Dynamic Web TWAIN Service installed and running on a system, connected to a web application which integrates the Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK. To use DWT to access scanners on other platforms and using other programming languages, you can use the DWT Service RESTful API. This allows desktop, mobile, and server-side applications to access the DWT Service installed on the scanner host (local or server) in a simple, stateless, and standardized manner.
The RESTful API simply returns scanned documents as streams of image files to the client, and does not use the DWT Viewer. This is because the RESTful API functions entirely using the DWT Service, and is viewer-agnostic. You may choose to feed the scanned images to any viewer, including a DWT Viewer in your application that you instantiate separately, if desired.
Here is a collection of tutorials on creating sample applications that use the DWT RESTful API in various platforms and languages.