How to access the iPhone's camera from Mobile Safari

Question

Is there a API or way for accessing the the iPhone\'s camera from Mobile Safari?I want to create a application that can read barcode within the browser. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It's now supported in iOS 6. I believe it uses a regular form file input field.

You can see some explanation here.

Answer 2

Try using input tag <input type="file" name="image" accept="image/*" capture/>.

It works well as compared to getUserMedia method which is fully supported by Opera mobile and chrome higher versions. Hope it help.

Answer 3

No. There's no way to do that. No web page can access internal devices.

You can do however a small tiny app that its launched via mobile safari link and makes user select the barcode image and then redirect to a web page that will process (the small app will also upload). Like what THIS guys actually implemented (the link provides code).

If you doesn't have experience with Objective C and Cocoa Touch you can create that app via PhoneGap like if you were creating a Web Page.

UPDATE

From iOS 6 and so on you actually can as the official specs says, you can use it via the upload API as seen here.