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Changelog | Cordova Barcode Scanner

Version 3.4.0 (20 Oct 2023):​

  • 🎉 New:
    • Added new parameter decodeStacks1D in CommonBarcodeConfiguration. For stacked RSS barcodes, this should be set to the number of stacks with which the barcode was printed.
    • Added a new text format property configuration in SelectionOverlayConfiguration.
  • 🚀 Improvements:
    • Improved recognition of inverted barcodes.
    • Improved performance and reduced false positive rate for stacked RSS barcodes.
    • Improved performance of DataMatrix and QR-codes.
  • 🐞 Bug fixes:
    • iOS: Fixed a focusing issue with the new iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max.
    • iOS: Changed the default back-facing camera to the ultra-wide lens on iPhone 14 Pro (including Max) devices, due to close-focusing issues with these devices.
    • iOS: Fixed a potential crash when the app using ScanbotSDK is suspended by the operating system.
  • 🚙 Under the hood:
    • Updated Android & iOS SDK to 3.4.0

Version 3.3.4 (27 Sep 2023):​

  • 🎉 New:
    • Introduced closeBarcodeScanner and closeBatchBarcodeScanner functions to programmatically close the scanners.
  • 🚀 Improvements:
    • Android: The scanners are now automatically closed when the Cordova activity is destroyed.
  • 🐞 Bug fixes:
    • Android: Fixed crash that occurred when the app was killed in the background while the scanner screen was open.

Version 3.3.3 (11 Apr 2023):​

  • ⚠️ Breaking Changes:
    • For iOS builds, Xcode 11 or later must be used.
  • 🚙 Under the hood:
    • Using XCFramework for the iOS Scanbot Barcode Scanner SDK under the hood

Version 3.3.1 (21 Nov 2022):​

  • 🎉 New:
    • Added barcodeFormats, acceptedDocumentFormats, minimumTextLength, maximumTextLength, minimum1DBarcodesQuietZone, stripCheckDigits, gs1DecodingEnabled, msiPlesseyChecksumAlgorithm, lowPowerMode, and barcodeFilter configuration in DetectBarcodesOnImageArgs.

Version 3.3.0 (28 Oct 2022):​

  • 🎉 New:
    • Added initialScanDelay configuration into BarcodeScannerConfiguration and BatchBarcodeScannerConfiguration for setting an initial delay before scanning starts.
    • Added delayAfterScan configuration into BarcodeScannerConfiguration for setting a delay before returning the result after the scanning completes.
    • Added selectionOverlayConfiguration configuration into BarcodeScannerConfiguration and BatchBarcodeScannerConfiguration which displays contours of the barcode and allows users to select the barcode on an AR-like layer.
    • Added textWithExtension attribute to barcode result: if the detected barcode has an extension, it contains both the text and the extension, otherwise it contains the text only.
    • Added barcodeFilter configuration into BarcodeScannerConfiguration and BatchBarcodeScannerConfiguration for configuring which barcode extensions will be detected.
    • Added codeDensity configuration into BarcodeScannerConfiguration and BatchBarcodeScannerConfiguration to determine the density of QR codes. A higher density finds more QR codes in an image but the performance is slightly reduced.
    • Added cameraModule configuration into BarcodeScannerConfiguration and BatchBarcodeScannerConfiguration for choosing the preferred camera: FRONT or BACK.
    • Added topBarButtonsInactiveColor configuration into BarcodeScannerConfiguration which allows choosing the foreground color of the flash button when the flash is off.
    • Android: Added useButtonsAllCaps configuration into BarcodeScannerConfiguration and BatchBarcodeScannerConfiguration which controls whether buttons should use all capitals style, as defined by Android Material Design.
    • Added autoCancelTimeout configuration into BarcodeScannerConfiguration which configures the time in seconds until the screen is automatically canceled.
  • 🚀 Improvements:
    • Android: Now Barcode Scanner and Batch Barcode Scanner will use CameraX by default
  • ⚠️ Breaking Changes:
    • Android: useCameraX configuration in ScanbotBarcodeSDKConfiguration is set to true by default
    • Parameter change in UIInterfaceOrientationMask interface: ALL is replaced with NONE
  • 🚙 Under the hood:
    • Upgraded the native Scanbot Android SDK to v3.3.0 (cf. changelog).
    • Upgraded the native Scanbot iOS SDK to v3.3.0 (cf. changelog).

Version 3.2.1 (19 Aug 2022):​

  • 🎉 New:
    • Added rawBytes to Barcode items in the BarcodeResult. Contains the raw bytes of the detected barcode.

Version 3.2.0 (26 Jul 2022):​

  • 🎉 New:
    • Added GS1 barcode document format support in BarcodeDocumentFormat.
  • ⚠️ Breaking Changes:
    • Renamed parameter DISABILITY_CERTIFICATE to MEDICAL_CERTIFICATE in BarcodeDocumentFormat.
    • Removed the property recognitionEnabled from BatchBarcodeScannerConfiguration class.
  • 🚙 Under the hood:
    • Upgraded the native Scanbot Android SDK to v3.2.2 (cf. changelog).
    • Upgraded the native Scanbot iOS SDK to v3.2.2 (cf. changelog).

Version 3.1.1 (22 Jun 2022):​

  • 🚀 Improvements:
    • Updated README

Version 3.1.0 (28 Jan 2022)​

  • 🎉 New:
    • Added lowPowerMode in BarcodeScannerConfiguration and BatchBarcodeScannerConfiguration (Android only).
    • Added the ability for Scanbot SDK Core native logging! See enableNativeLogging in ScanbotBarcodeSDKConfiguration (Android only).
    • Added useCameraX in ScanbotBarcodeSDKConfiguration. You can now enable CameraX under the hood (Android only).
    • Added allowXnnpackAcceleration in ScanbotBarcodeSDKConfiguration which allows controlling whether the XNN pack optimizations should be used (Android only).
    • Added allowGpuAcceleration in ScanbotBarcodeSDKConfiguration which enables GPU acceleration for TensorFlow ML models (Android only).
    • Added stripCheckDigits in BarcodeScannerConfiguration and BatchBarcodeScannerConfiguration. With this option enabled, the scanner removes check digits for UPC, EAN and MSI Plessey barcodes.
    • Added cameraZoomFactor to BatchBarcodeScannerConfiguration
  • ⚠️ Breaking Changes:
    • Renamed parameter enableGS1Decoding to gs1DecodingEnabled in BarcodeScannerConfiguration and BatchBarcodeScannerConfiguration.
    • Replaced parameter allowedInterfaceOrientations with orientationLockMode on BarcodeScannerConfiguration.
    • Removed unused parameters bottomButtonsInactiveColor and bottomButtonsActiveColor from BarcodeScannerConfiguration.
  • 🚀 Improvements:
    • Improved Aztec barcode recognition.
    • Improved PDF417 recognition performance on single photos.
    • Improved barcode detection on large documents.
    • Improved GS-1 databar recognition in the next-gen barcode scanner.
  • 🐞 Bug fixes:
    • Fixed orientationLockMode causes a crash on certain configurations
  • 🚙 Under the hood:

Version 3.0.1 (21 Jul 2021)​

  • 🚀 Improvements:
    • iOS: The native iOS SDK framework is no longer contained in the npm package but downloaded after npm install.
  • 🐞 Bug fixes:
    • iOS: Fixed a packaging issue with the native iOS SDK framework.
  • 🚙 Under the hood:
    • iOS: Updated the native iOS Scanbot Barcode Scanner SDK to 3.0.1.

Version 3.0.0 (16 Jul 2021)​

  • 🎉 New:
    • Brand new "Next Generation" machine-learning-based barcode scanning engine with improved reliability and much faster performance
    • API changes for the new barcode engine: added engineMode property on barcode scanning APIs to switch between the legacy barcode engine and the new Next Generation barcode engine. By default, the new engine is used.
    • Re-introduced MSI Plessey barcode recognition (disabled by default)
  • 🚙 Under the hood:
    • Updated the native Android Scanbot Barcode Scanner SDK to 3.0.1
    • Updated the native iOS Scanbot Barcode Scanner SDK to 3.0.0

Version 2.1.0 (28 Apr 2021):​

  • 🎉 New:

    • Added support for zooming in Barcode Scanner! See cameraZoomFactor parameter in startBarcodeScanner.
    • Added new Batch Barcode Scanning function startBatchBarcodeScanner! See startBatchBarcodeScanner.
    • Introduced Document Type Filtering! See acceptedDocumentFormats parameter in startBarcodeScanner.
    • Introduced Barcode Scanning additional parameters. See minimumTextLength, maximumTextLength, minimum1DBarcodesQuietZone, and enableGS1Decoding in startBarcodeScanner.
    • Support for Swiss QR codes
    • Introduced encryption for Barcode Images

  • ⚠️ Breaking Changes:

    • Removed finderWidth and finderHeight from BarcodeScannerConfiguration. Use finderAspectRatio instead (see startBarcodeScanner)
    • Removed support for MSI Plessey Barcodes Detection

  • 🚀 Improvements:

    • Improved Barcode Detection Accuracy
    • Optimized memory consumption during Barcode Detection
    • Various UI improvements

  • 🐞 Bug fixes:

    • iOS: Fixed a rare out-of-memory crash in barcode scanning on older devices
    • Android: Fixed multiple simultaneous detection results on a single ITF barcode

  • 🚙 Under the hood:

    • Updated the native Android Scanbot Barcode Scanner SDK to v1.7.0 (cf. changelog)
    • Updated the native iOS Scanbot Barcode Scanner SDK to v1.11.0 (cf. changelog)

Version 2.0.0 (22 Dec 2020):​

  • 🚀 Improvements:
    • Improved detection of several 1D and 2D barcode types
  • 🐞 Bug fixes:
    • iOS: Fixed some issues with submission to App Store Connect ("ERROR ITMS-90xxx...")
    • iOS: Fixed the strip-script
  • ⚠️ Breaking Changes:
    • iOS: Dropped support for iOS 9 and iOS 10!
  • 🚙 Under the hood:
    • Updated the native Android Scanbot Barcode Scanner SDK to v1.3.0 (cf. changelog)
    • Updated the native iOS Scanbot Barcode Scanner SDK to v1.8.4 (cf. changelog)

Version 1.0.0 (13 Feb 2020):​

  • 🎉 First release.

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