Passports and national ID cards carry Machine Readable Zones (MRZ) — standardized text lines that encode holder identity, document numbers, and expiry dates. Reading these zones reliably from a mobile camera is critical for border control, hotel check-in, and KYC workflows. This tutorial walks through building a SwiftUI iOS app...

Developers integrating barcode scanning into iOS apps have several viable options — Dynamsoft Barcode Reader (commercial), Google ML Kit (free), Apple Vision (native), and ZXing-CPP (open source) — each with different accuracy, speed, and format coverage characteristics. This article walks through building a SwiftUI benchmark app that runs all four...

When evaluating barcode scanning SDKs, you’ll often encounter bold marketing claims: “Scans barcodes from 5 meters away!” or “Industry-leading long-distance scanning!” But here’s the truth that vendors don’t want you to know: distance alone is a meaningless metric. In this article, I’ll show you how to build an iOS app...

Apple’s vision framework provides APIs for performing computer vision tasks such as face detection, document boundary detection, and text extraction. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to leverage these APIs and Dynamsoft MRZ SDK to build a robust iOS ID scanner app. What you’ll build: A SwiftUI iOS app that...

In office environments, network-connected physical document scanners from manufacturers like HP , Canon , Epson , and Brother often support protocols such as ESCL (AirPrint) or ICA (Image Capture). However, for scanners that do not natively support these protocols, you can use third-party services like Dynamic Web TWAIN to enable...

Dynamsoft’s ready-to-use iOS barcode scanner framework adds live QR code and barcode scanning to a SwiftUI app through Swift Package Manager, and its open-source component can be customized to override default behavior such as automatic result return. This article is Part 1 in a 1-Part Series. Part 1 - How...

Dynamsoft currently provides only a C++ Barcode SDK for macOS. Previously, we built a macOS barcode scanner by combining Swift, Objective-C and C++. Since modern macOS app development primarily relies on Swift, creating a macOS framework that wraps the C++ Barcode SDK with Objective-C++ can streamline the process of calling...

Previously, we created a cross-platform SwiftUI project, a 1D/2D barcode scanner app, for macOS and iOS using the Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK. In this tutorial, we will continue to explore the functionalities of the Capture Vision SDK by building a document scanner app for macOS and iOS using SwiftUI. Utilizing...

In the previous tutorial, we explored how to build a SwiftUI barcode scanner app for macOS using the Dynamsoft Capture Vision C++ SDK. Since SwiftUI is a cross-platform framework supporting both macOS and iOS, and the Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK provides a Swift Package Manager (SPM) for iOS, it is...

Developing a barcode scanner app for macOS comes with unique challenges, particularly due to the limited availability of barcode SDKs specifically designed for the platform. Fortunately, the Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK provides a powerful and reliable solution, enabling developers to easily build barcode, MRZ, and document scanners using Python (powered...

Machine-readable zones (MRZ) are an essential feature for processing passports, IDs, and other travel documents. In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to build an iOS MRZ scanner app using SwiftUI and Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK. What you’ll build: A native iOS app that uses the device camera to scan and...

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...

SwiftUI is a robust UI framework designed for constructing native applications across all Apple platforms. This article will guide you through developing an iOS QR code scanner utilizing SwiftUI, Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader on an Apple Silicon Mac (M1/M2/M3/M4). What you’ll build: A native iOS app that...