How Can I Trigger a Scanner from a Browser?

Question

I have Fujitsu fi-6130 TWAIN / ISIS scanners that I\'d like to trigger from a button in a jQuery Rails web page. Not only would I like to have the page tell the scanner to

Answer 1

It seems there's a Web API toolkit available for Fujitsu fi series scanners. Its basically an app you install on client machine where the scanner is that accepts calls via JSON or Silverlight and sends them to the scanner drivers.

http://uk.emc.com/enterprise-content-management/captiva/cloud-toolkit.htm

I've just downloaded it and am reading trough the docs, so can't vouch it works.