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Version: 6.28.5

6.28.5​

Released: April 4, 2025

No updates for this framework in this release.

6.28.4​

Released: February 14, 2025

Bug Fixes​

Core​

  • Fixed an issue which reduced scans for low-resolution and blurry codes affected by distortion or damage, when multiple symbologies were enabled.
  • Fixed an issue where scanned blurry codes locations are sometimes flipped.

6.28.3​

Released: December 23, 2024

Bug Fixes​

Core​

  • Fixed an issue causing the SparkScanView to not be rendered on top of the host application content.

6.28.2​

Released: December 12, 2024

Bug Fixes​

  • Fixed an issue in ID Capture where no more frame would be processed after a frame source change.

6.28.1​

Released: October 29, 2024

New Features​

ID​

  • ID Capture now supports scanning the following additional documents:
    • Armenia - Passport
    • Bahamas - Residence Permit, Work Permit
    • Colombia - Temporary Protection Permit
    • Comoros - Passport
    • Dominican Republic - Non-Voter ID
    • Jamaica - Voter ID
    • Kazakhstan - Passport
    • Kyrgyzstan - Passport
    • Lebanon - Driver's License
    • Peru - Minor ID
    • Tajikistan - Passport
    • Turkmenistan - Passport
    • Uzbekistan - Passport, ID Card

Bug Fixes​

Barcode​

  • Fixed an issue that could cause the application to get stuck when opening IndexedDB on Safari.
  • Fixed an issue where the brush was not being correctly set when calling BarcodeTrackingBasicOverlay.setBrush().

6.28.0​

Released: October 8, 2024

New Features​

Barcode​

  • BarcodeFind is an API that implements MatrixScan Find. MatrixScan Find is a pre-built UI that uses augmented reality overlays to highlight items that match predefined criteria. It allows you to add a search and find experience with augmented reality to an existing native app, with just a few lines of code.
  • On Barcode Capture and SparkScan, we optimized the frame processing time in 4k-UHD resolution with dynamic resolution selection, resulting in up to 35% reduction on high-end devices and consistent performance improvements across all supported devices. platforms.

ID​

  • ID Capture now supports scanning:
    • Visual Inspection Zone (VIZ) on the back of the European Health Insurance Card.
    • Visual Inspection Zone (VIZ) of New York City IDs.
    • Florida Medical Marijuana IDs.
  • Added Blood Type and Sponsor fields to CapturedResultType.VizResult.

Bug Fixes​

Barcode​

  • Fixed result data encoding classification for raw byte data in 2d barcodes, in particular for Shift-JIS encoding.
  • Resolved cases in which Smart Scan Intention was possibly reporting the wrong barcode when when the camera was quickly changing direction with a single barcode in the scene.
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to scan non-fluorescent French-Post barcodes without the extension fluorescent_orange_ink.
  • Fixed a bug where importing the SDK in a node environment would cause an error.
  • Fixed an issue where, in rare cases, the page was not scrolling after detaching the DataCaptureView.

6.27.2​

Released: September 23, 2024

New Features​

Barcode​

6.27.2​

Released: September 23, 2024

No updates for this framework in this release.

6.27.1​

Released September 6, 2024

No updates for this framework in this version.

6.27.0​

Released: September 5, 2024

API Changes​

Barcode​

Bug Fixes​

Barcode​

  • Resolved cases in which Smart Scan Intention was possibly reporting the wrong barcode when the camera was quickly changing direction with a single barcode in the scene.
  • Fixed a bug where importing the SDK in a node environment would cause an error.

6.26.0​

Released: August 15, 2024

New Features​

ID​

Core​

Performance Improvements​

Barcode​

  • Improved ArUco scanning when color inverted codes are enabled.
  • Improved tracking robustness on Barcode Count.
  • Significantly lowered the rate of false positives (i.e., presumed unscanned barcodes) when using Barcode Count.
  • Improved recognition rate for Composite Codes, with a particular focus on codes with small 2d components (e.g. PDF417).
  • Improved recognition rate of linear codes which are partially affected by damage or covered in plastic wrap, with a particular focus on Codabar barcodes.
  • Improved localization of postal codes, up to 25% faster.

Bug Fixes​

ID​

  • Fixed an issue where ID Capture could get occasionally stuck when presented with the back side of a document while the front is expected.
  • Fixed an issue introduced in 6.25, where capturing MRZ was not possible in Safari on MacOS and on iOS in landscape mode.
  • Fixed an error 255 that would prevent capturing MRZ for some license keys, for which this feature was enabled.

Deprecations​

6.25.3​

Released: September 2, 2024

Bug Fixes​

  • Concatenated ArUco codes are now comma-separated.

6.25.2​

Released: August 2, 2024

No updates for this framework in this release.

6.25.1​

Released: August 1, 2024

Bug Fixes​

Barcode​

  • Fixed an issue in MatrixScan Count that was causing a reset after a rotation.

ID​

  • Fixed an error 255 that would prevent capturing MRZ for some licenses where this feature is supposed to be enabled.
  • Fixed an issue where ID Capture could get stuck when presented with the backside of a document while the front is expected.
  • Fixed an issue introduced in 6.25.0, where capturing MRZ was not possible in Safari on MacOS and on iOS in the landscape mode.

6.25.0​

Released: July 5, 2024

New Features​

Barcode​

ID​

  • Added the following properties to SDCVizResult:
    • SDCVizResult.mothersName to represent the mother’s name of the document owner.
    • SDCVizResult.fathersName to represent the father’s name of the document owner.
  • Improved the extraction of the document number from UK driver’s licenses.

Behavioral Changes​

Core​

  • The license key encryption algorithm for Electron has changed to support larger license keys. See Electron section in the Installation page for more information.

Performance Improvements​

Barcode​

  • Improved recognition rate for Composite A and Composite B barcodes, thanks to an increased robustness for small and low resolution MicroPDF417.
  • Improved recognition rate of long, thin linear 1d codes, such as those found on electronic shelf labels (ESLs).
  • Improved recognition rate of linear codes which are partially affected by damage or glare, with a particular focus on codabar barcodes.

Bug Fixes​

ID​

6.24.0​

Released: May 8, 2024

New Features​

Barcode​

  • Smart Scan Intention: Introduced a new algorithm named "smart" that intelligently identifies and scans the intended barcode, reducing errors. It can be manually set in Barcode Capture (BarcodeCaptureSettings.scanIntention).

  • Advanced Barcode Tracking for WebSDK: Added advanced Barcode Tracking capabilities with BarcodeTrackingAdvancedOverlay, an overlay for DataCaptureView that allows anchoring a single user-provided View to each tracked barcode. Users can configure the view displayed for a barcode and its relative position by implementing BarcodeTrackingAdvancedOverlayListener or by calling BarcodeTrackingAdvancedOverlay.setViewForTrackedBarcode(), BarcodeTrackingAdvancedOverlay.setAnchorForTrackedBarcode(), or BarcodeTrackingAdvancedOverlay.setOffsetForTrackedBarcode(). For more information, refer to the "Add AR Overlays in MatrixScan" documentation.

ID​

  • Rejection Reason: Added RejectedId.rejectionReason to provide the reason why a document was rejected.

  • State-Specific Thresholds in ID Verification: Added support for per-state thresholds and removed the hardcoded number of features. This is a breaking change; old verification models will not work.

  • Timeout Callback Modification: Modified IdCaptureListener.didTimedOut() to be invoked whenever a document is localized for a period but not captured.

  • Fixed Surnames in US Driver’s Licenses: Fixed truncated surnames in US driver’s licenses using magnetic stripe format.

  • Newly Supported Documents for MRZ Scanning:

    • Mexico: Matrícula Consular

  • New Feature for French Passports: Added CapturedId.secondaryLastName containing the common name (“nom d’usage”) on French passports.

Performance Improvements​

ID​

  • Improved Capture Performance: Enhanced capture performance for US driver’s license PDF417 barcodes with printing defects, particularly from Ohio, Louisiana, and Florida.

Bug Fixes​

Barcode​

  • Fixed the “Tap to Focus” animation when the view size changes.

ID​

  • Fixed a crash when scanning a passport MRZ followed by a non-passport VIZ.
  • Fixed an issue causing the century of birth dates, issue dates, and expiry dates to be returned incorrectly when scanning the VIZ of European IDs, Swiss driver’s licenses, and UAE IDs.
  • Fixed instances where information was incorrectly extracted from British Columbia PDF417.

6.23.4​

Released: July 23, 2024

No updates for this framework in this release.

6.23.3​

Released: May 10, 2024

Bug Fixes​

Core​

  • Fix an additional issue that prevented the SIGILL fix introduced on 6.23.2 to work on certain Samsung Galaxy S9 devices.

6.23.2​

Released: April 30, 2024

  • Fixed crash (SIGILL) on Exynos 9810-based Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ devices that advertise support for FP16 arithmetics. A previous fix in 6.21.0 only partially resolved the issue.
  • Removed unused code and updated the privacy manifest to conform to the new privacy requirements.

6.23.1​

Released: April 24, 2024

  • Added support for Mexican Matrícula Consular MRZ codes.
  • Fixed truncated surnames in US driver’s licenses using magnetic stripe format.

6.23.0​

Released: March 22, 2024

New Features​

Core​

  • Added the possibility to consume the SDK inside an Electron app. The encrypted license location must be passed through ConfigureOptions.licenseDataPath option.

Behavioral Changes​

Core​

  • Removed the hard requirement of HTTPS protocol to support more execution contexts.

Bug Fixes​

ID​

  • Fixed issues with scanning AAMVA documents (barcode part) that contain characters from non-English alphabets.
  • Fixed a licensing issue where a Barcode Scanner license was wrongly required when scanning the back side of a UK driver’s license.
  • Fixed a crash when scanning a passport MRZ then a non-passport VIZ.

Core​

  • Fixed the radius of the radius location selection for cases where the DataCaptureView’s aspect ratio is considerably different from the aspect ratio of the camera frames.

6.22.2​

Released: April 30, 2024

6.22.1​

Released: March 13, 2024

  • Fixed a licensing issue where a Barcode Scanner license was wrongly required when scanning the back side of a UK driver’s license.
  • Fixed UI glitch that was happening when disabling ID Capture mode.

6.22.0​

Released: February 16, 2024

New Features​

Barcode​

  • Added QR symbology extension called strict to suppress rare QR reader false positives. strict reduces the scan robustness of damaged codes.

ID​

  • Added AamvaVizBarcodeComparisonResult.frontMismatchImage that visualizes the document data printed on the front side that differs from what is encoded in the barcode. Please contact Scandit Support if you want to use this feature.
  • Improved the accuracy of AamvaVizBarcodeComparisonVerifier.
  • Improved the accuracy of VizMrzComparisonVerifier.
  • Added IdCaptureOverlay.showTextHints for showing/hiding text hints.
  • Added AamvaVizBarcodeComparisonResult.frontMismatchImage that highlights suspicious fields. This feature is currently in beta and may change significantly in future releases.

Core​

  • Added DataCaptureView.allowPictureInPicture() to configure video element picture-in-picture capability.

Performance Improvements​

Barcode​

  • Further improved QR code scan performance of codes occluded by glare.
  • Improved scan performance for 1D barcodes with missing or damaged quiet zones.

Bug Fixes​

Barcode​

  • Fixed a bug in handling of active symbol counts for Codabar.

ID​

  • Fixed an issue on barcode localization overlay not being drawn on the screen.
  • Fixed an issue where US Border Crossing Cards were not recognized.

6.21.3​

Released: March 5, 2024

  • Fixed UI glitch that was happening when disabling ID Capture mode.

6.21.2​

Released: February 19, 2024

  • Fixed an issue where US Border Crossing Cards were not recognized.
  • Fixed Id Verification Zone Comparison reported erroneously as not included in a license for some licenses that, in fact, include it.

6.21.0​

Released: December 8, 2024

New Features​

Barcode​

  • Added support for QR model 1 codes (legacy format).
  • Added support for UPU 4-State codes with fluorescent orange ink (fluorescent_orange_ink extension, see also Symbology Properties).
  • Added the possibility to freeze the barcode locations on the overlay after scan through BarcodeCaptureOverlay.setShouldRemoveLocationsAfterScan().

ID​

  • Added AAMVABarcodeResult.firstNameWithoutMiddleName.

Core​

  • Added Localization class to manage localization strings from a central place.
  • Improved file structure in distributed package to allow bundlers to tree-shake unused features of the SDK, resulting in lighter resources to download for the browser.
  • Fixed an issue where code is executed at import time, causing issues in SSR context (Server Side Rendering).

Behavioral Changes​

Core​

  • Removed ResizeObserver polyfill as a dependency due to the browsers we support.

Performance Improvements​

Barcode​

  • Improved the responsiveness of MatrixScan Count on low-end devices.
  • Improved QR code scan performance of codes occluded by glare.

Core​

  • Improved MatrixScan frames per second by 80% for SIMD-enabled browsers.

Bug Fixes​

Barcode​

  • Fixed a rare crash during the destruction of tracking-based capture modes.

ID​

  • Fixed issues with scanning IdDocumentType.AAMVABarcode documents that had some special characters in their content.
  • Fixed an issue on barcode localization overlay not being drawn on the screen.

Core​

  • Fixed a crash (SIGILL) on Samsung Galaxy S9 (Exynos 9810 based) with Android version 8.
  • Resolved an issue where a loading loop occasionally occurred on iOS 15.x devices when IndexedDB became unresponsive.

Deprecations​

ID​

  • Deprecated IdCaptureOverlay.setBackSideTextHint(), IdCaptureOverlay.setFrontSideTextHint(), IdCaptureOverlay.setMoveCloserTextHint(), and IdCaptureOverlay.setMoveFurtherAwayTextHint() in favor of the Localization class.

Core​

  • Deprecated DataCaptureView.cameraRecoveryText in favor of the Localization class.

6.20.3​

Released: January 18, 2024

  • Fixed Id Verification Zone Comparison reported erroneously as not included in a license for some licenses that, in fact, include it.
  • Fixed the UI occasionally incorrectly presenting the front & back flow while capturing IdDocumentType.AAMVABarcode.

6.20.2​

Released: December 14, 2023

  • Fixed a crash (SIGILL) on Samsung Galaxy S9 (Exynos 9810 based) with Android version 8.

6.20.1​

Released: November 28, 2023

  • Fixed an issue that caused the SDK to get stuck during loading on certain devices.

6.20.0​

Released: November 7, 2023

New Features​

Barcode​

  • Updated the camera behavior to overcome the scanning challenges found on the iPhone 13 Pro (Max) and iPhone 14 Pro (Max) when using the built-in camera for barcode scanning. Our testing showed that barcodes that are less than 2 cm or ~1 inch in size (and usually have such small features) were impacted.

ID​

  • New textual hints and animations guide the user if the camera is too close or too far to capture a document.
  • Redesigned ID Capture viewfinders to enable smoother drawing performance.
  • For ID cards issued by the United Arab Emirates, data parsed from the Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) is now returned automatically when IdDocumentType.IdCardVIZ and SupportedSides.FrontAndBack are selected.
  • Added textual hints and animations appearing when the document is detected to be too close or too far from the camera.
  • Improved recognition of cropped ID document images when using the SingleImageUploader frame source.

Core​

  • Added property SingleImageUploaderSettings.onlyCameraCapture to force the image to be captured by the camera instead of allowing the selection of an image from the device’s photo library.
  • Added ImageFrameSource. This new type of FrameSource allows processing a single image, file, or ImageData.
  • Added Camera.settings to Camera.

Bug Fixes​

ID​

  • Fixed an issue where hints were not being shown when the DataCaptureView is attached after the id.IdCapture instance is created.

Core​

  • Restored some logs that were not being properly sent to the console anymore.

API Changes​

ID​

  • Added IdCaptureOverlay.setMoveCloserTextHint() and IdCaptureOverlay.setMoveFurtherAwayTextHint() that allow setting custom text for textual hints displayed when scanning a document.