Software development kits for digital ink
Wacom Ink SDKs
Digital ink app creation
Enabling electronic signatures and form-processing within document workflows, out-of-the-box.
Wacom Ink SDKs allow you to augment existing apps with digital ink features, or design entirely new ones. Whichever you choose to do, your benefits are the same:
- Reduced risk: You are using proven technology built by the global market leader in digital pen technology.
- Faster development and time to market; Develop once to add digital ink to applications on any device or platform.
- Lower costs: Faster development with less effort means extending or building apps with digital ink functionality costs much less than you expect.
Whatever your app idea, there is a tested and proven Wacom Ink SDK to help you build it easily and quickly. What’s more, you can download a full, free evaluation of any of them today, and use them without charge until you are ready to launch your app commercially.
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Wacom Ink SDK for signature
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Wacom Ink SDK for verification
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Wacom Ink SDK for multi-display
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Wacom Ink SDK for devices
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WILL™ SDK for ink
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The Wacom Device Kit
Wacom Ink SDK for signature
The Wacom Ink SDK for signature allows you to integrate support for Wacom signature pads or pen displays into your applications. This allows you to offer users stunning signature capture and display in a wide range of use cases across financial services, legal processes, sales transactions, and many other identity verification scenarios.
Using the Wacom Ink SDK for signature together with Wacom’s signature pads ensures text and images are displayed clearly on the screen, even after hundreds of thousands of transactions.
The Wacom Ink SDK for signature also gives you all the tools you need to:
- Capture biometric handwritten electronic signatures within applications on Wacom STU series pen displays, pen tablets and mobile devices running Windows, iOS or Android.
- Automatically render digital ink within documents
- Easily integrate digital signature capture into any document workflow
- Display dialog boxes and captures full biometric signature data that can be leveraged for a range of exciting new use cases.
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Wacom Ink SDK for verification
Handwritten signatures are often crucial for organizational workflows in many sectors, from education to banking. Used together with a digital pen display or pen tablet, Wacom Ink SDK for verification is a set of software tools that enable organizations to verify the authenticity of signatures accurately and with less effort than humans can achieve on their own.
The SDK contains a verification engine that enables two types of integration: dynamic (real-time) and static (image-based). It is the only solution on the market that enables both these types of signature verification within a single product. They can be used either independently or in combination.
Unlike alternative solutions, the SDK:
- Is compatible with any type of application such as a CRM system that can store a signature file, and any hardware that captures handwritten eSignatures in ISO format.
- Is installed on the customer’s own server.
- Stores captures signatures and data on the customer’s server, eliminating any potential compliance risks or data privacy issues.
Interested? Click below to request access to a trial of the Wacom Ink SDK for verification today.
Wacom Ink SDK for multi-display
In combination with a Wacom pen display, the Wacom Ink SDK for multi-display lets desk clerks and customers collaborate on digital documents in the safest, most efficient way possible – without comprising on the customer experience or employee productivity.
- The SDK enables documents to be viewed simultaneously on a computer and a Wacom pen display, without sharing mouse control.
- The clerk controls the content shown on the pen display from a computer. The customer can view and sign the document with a digital pen or by touch, depending on the device.
In addition, when not being used by a customer, the pen display can be used to show other content such as advertising or special offers.
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Wacom Ink SDK for devices
The Wacom Ink SDK for devices allows you to integrate our Wacom hardware and third-party inking devices into your applications. The Common Device Library (CDL) SDK currently supports Wacom Smartpads (Folio, Slate and Clipboard), Intuos Pro Paper Edition and the Apple pencil on iPad Pro. Future releases will add support for additional Wacom devices, as well as inking devices from other vendors. Platform-specific packages are also available for iOS, Android, Windows, UWP/Desktop, and Web, depending on the device. Further Wacom device support is provided by the free Wacom Device Kit.
The Common Device Library (CDL) SDK within the Wacom Ink SDK for devices is designed as one library that can handle different types of pen or touch input via Wacom and third-party devices. The advantages of this approach include:
- Less implementation effort for developers; integration of only one library, support for several pen input devices.
- The flexibility to include support for non-Wacom devices in your applications.
- The freedom to take full advantage of WILL™ to provide a high quality front-end and UI through optional receipt of RAW data from the device, without sacrificing the original data for internal/back-end usage.
- Easy access to Wacom’s digital ink ecosystem through smooth integration of WILL™ technology.
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WILL™ SDK for ink
The WILL™ SDK for ink empowers you to include premium digital inking features in your applications by taking raw pen input data and rendering every stroke into beautiful digital ink. You can also use the WILL™ file format (.WILL™) to store and exchange ink content between applications and platforms.
WILL™ supports a variety of input technologies and generates the highest quality, most attractive digital ink outputs available via these modules:
- Path generation and smoothing, reflecting the specific characteristics of each input type including pen movement and pressure.
- Rasterizer providing advanced real-time stroke rendering.
- Manipulation-supporting editing functions that leverage the WILL™ stroke mathematical model.
- Serialization encoding for encoding and decoding WILL™ stroke data.
The WILL™ SDK for ink also provides platform-specific packages for iOS, Android, Windows UWP and Web.
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The Wacom Device Kit
The Wacom Device Kit delivers the raw pen position, pressure and timing data that you need to integrate Wacom devices into your applications. It consists of the following five elements:
STU SDK
An input library for capturing pen data from all STU-series signature pads on Windows and Linux platforms.
Bluetooth Stylus SDK
This input SDK enables discovery of and connection to stylus devices, and the receipt of raw pressure and button state data. It also includes functionality to enable Touch Rejection, so that users can maintain a natural handwriting position without disturbing the digital canvas.
The SDK includes support for the following styli:
- Intuos® Creative Stylus
- Intuos® Creative Stylus 2
- Bamboo Stylus fineline
- Bamboo Fineline 2
- Bamboo Fineline
Wintab API
An input API for capturing data from Wacom tablets and pen displays running Windows and OSX. Compatible tablets and displays include:
- Wacom Pen Displays
- Wacom Pen Tablets
Wacom Digitizer Pen for Android API
An input API for integrating pen technology with applications running on Android.
Feel Multi-touch APIs
These APIs enable you to build applications that utilize the powerful finger detection and location capabilities of Wacom touch tablets. This stream of finger information can be used to create unique application features, including custom gestures or direct on screen manipulation.
Download the free Wacom Device Kit now!
Full technical details and download instructions are available on our dedicated Developer Documentation website.
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