I have done this before. <input type="file" id="File" name="File" accept="image/*;capture=camera">
This will basically work like a standard file upload input but will use the camera to select the file. Craig On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, I've got an ASP.NET app specifically designed to look pleasant in > tablet sized device browsers. Now it has been suggested that while using > the web app, you drill down and pick a product, then use the device's > camera to take a picture of the product and somehow save it and associate > it with the product's ID. > > But how on earth can you bridge the gap between a web app running in a > browser and the device's camera? The photos can go anywhere, into the > phone's file system, into Google or Apple cloud storage, etc. My app is > just a dumb web app and has no access to anything in the mobile device, so > how can I deliver the photo to some known location and associate it with > the product's ID. > > Perhaps I could use a classic ASP.NET upload control, which requires a > bit of user clicking and picking. Perhaps the photos could go into known > cloud containers or a dropbox like facility, but the address and names > would have to be given to the web app. > > Has anyone been through this sort of problem before? Any ideas? > > *Greg K* >
