Document Scan

documentScan

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Technical Context

Provides access to the chrome.documentScan API for discovering and interacting with document scanners. This is a ChromeOS-specific permission for scanner integration.

What This Means For You

On Chromebooks, the extension can use connected document scanners to digitize paper documents. This is only available on Chrome OS.

Related APIs

This permission enables access to these Chrome APIs:

chrome.documentScan

Common Use Cases

✓Document digitization
✓OCR tools
✓Paperless workflows

How to Declare in manifest.json

Add the "documentScan" permission to your extension manifest:

{
  "manifest_version": 3,
  "name": "My Extension",
  "permissions": [
    "documentScan"
  ]
}

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