Implement a JavaScript API for document scanning

chrome/common/extensions/api/document_scan.idl

+// Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Use the <code>chrome.document_scan</code> API to discover and retrieve
+// images from attached paper document scanners.
+namespace documentScan {
+  dictionary ScanOptions {
+    // The MIME types that are accepted by the caller.
+    DOMString[]? mimeTypes;
+
+    // The number of scanned images allowed (defaults to 1).
+    long? maxImages;
+  };
+
+  dictionary ScanResults {
+    // The data image URLs in a form that can be passed as the "src" value to
+    // an image tag.
+    DOMString[] dataUrls;
+
+    // The MIME type of |dataUrls|.
+    DOMString mimeType;
+  };
+
+  // Callback from the <code>scan</code> method; on success
+  // the results from the scan is returned in |results|.
+  callback ScanCallback = void (ScanResults results);
+
+  interface Functions {
+    // Performs a document scan.  On success, the PNG data will be
+    // sent to the callback.
+    // |options| : <code>Options</code> object containing scan parameters.
+    // |callback| : Called with the result and data from the scan.
+    static void scan(ScanOptions options, ScanCallback callback);
+  };
+};