Question Identification of local drive from website

[oldpl1guy]

I have an application that catalogs .jpg images according to 12 criteria. The application resides on a website. Rather than upload all of the images to the website from a local drive for cataloging, I would like to access the .jpgs as they reside on the local drive. I have been unable to get the identity of the local drive when the user accesses the website? Thanks in advance for any response.

Tom

 

[oldpl1guy]

To clarify: The idea is that someone (user) would access the website and activate the software that would process information on the user's local drive. Is there a way for the website software to know the location of the information on the local drive (let's say c:/cataloges/(file a, file b, etc.); read that information, and create output to that local drive? Since the user is activating the software, I wouldn't think that there should be a security issue.