Is there a way for a browser / web-application to access and read files in a given folder on local file system (vs requiring user to upload folder)

I would like our web-application to read images from our user's selected folder. The current UX is that the user must upload the folder of images, which takes an unacceptable amount of time, so we'd like to not require uploads. We're currently using the FileSystem API.

My hunch is that this is not doable with a web-app. If that's true, my next question is... can it be doable if it was a progressive web-app? What about an electron desktop app?

Thanks in advance