Using a phone to scan and print (copy) documents is ideal for convenience, portability, and quick tasks, making it a versatile and practical choice for many users. In this article, we are going to build a web app to scan and print a document on a mobile phone. The following...

Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif) is a standard that specifies formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones). It contains metadata like camera parameters, image dimensions, and image orientation. Most camera sensors have a shape where its width is larger than the height. If...

An iOS app written in Swift can pick multiple photos from the gallery, optionally auto-crop documents with Dynamsoft Document Normalizer, and merge the results into a single PDF file. This is useful for ID cards, receipts, or any workflow that needs several images combined into one shareable document. What you’ll...

Image cropping is a common image processing task where we only need a potion of an image. In most cases, we make a rectangular selection box for cropping. But for cases like document scanning, we need to make a polygonal selection box. Perspective transformation is needed to normalize the document....

Dynamsoft Document Normalizer is an SDK to detect the boundary of documents and runs perspective transformation to get a normalized document image. In this article, we are going to build an iOS document scanner using Dynamsoft Document Normalizer and AVFoundation. A demo video of the final result: The scanning process:...