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Ready-to-Use UI v.1.0 -> v.2.0

Introduction​

The improved Document Scanner SDK RTU UI v.2.0 further streamlines the integration of our scanning functionalities into your mobile app and provides a tried and true user experience. It also adds several new features – most notably dedicated screens for scanning, reviewing, and editing documents. Thanks to in-depth configuration options, you can tailor the scanning flow to your use case.

If you are currently using RTU UI v.1.0 in your app, this guide will help you migrate to v.2.0.

Key concept differences​

Document scanning flow​

The new version of the Ready-to-Use UI provides not only separate scanning and cropping screens but also allows you to easily integrate the entire document scanning flow into your application.

The document scanning flow consists of the following screens combined in a single scanning process:

  • Introduction Screen
  • Scanning Screen
  • Acknowledge Screen
  • Review Screen
  • Crop Screen
  • Reorder Screen

You may also disable certain screens if they are unnecessary for your use case.

All screens are highly customizable, allowing you to adapt the UI to your app’s design and branding.

See more details in the Ready-to-Use UI page.

Document API​

The new version of the Ready-to-Use UI introduces a new approach to handling scanned documents.

DocumentData provides a structured way to represent and manage scanned documents and their associated data, ensuring every document is complete and properly formatted. The ScanbotSDK.Document exposes an API to create, modify and delete DocumentData while startDocumentScanner and startCroppingScreen are used to start the Ready-to-Use UI.

DocumentData contains pages represented as PageData. Each page consists of an original image of the scan, various editing properties like cropping polygon, rotation and filters, some metadata properties like the document detection status and the document quality analyzer result and a number of processed images in different stages. The editing properties of each page can be used to manipulate its final document image in a non-destructive way. The scanned pages can be organized (added, removed and moved) within the scanned document.

The scanned document automatically persists itself, including its pages and their images, on the disk, so that you can access and modify the scanned document, its pages and images across numerous app sessions. Various functions allow you to enumerate, load and delete your scanned documents.

Migration guide​

Update Scanbot SDK version​

The Document Scanner SDK RTU UI v.2.0 was introduced in version 6.1.0. To use the new RTU UI, you need to update the Scanbot SDK to version 6.1.0 or higher. You may find the latest version of the Scanbot SDK in the Changelog.

Document Scanner startDocumentScanner migration​

The configuration of the Ready-to-Use UI has changed. The new version of the Ready-to-Use UI is more flexible and allows you to configure the UI more easily.

Imagine you had the following DocumentScannerConfiguration configuration for the Ready-to-Use UI v.1.0 startDocumentScanner:

Document Scanner V1
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The new configuration for the Ready-to-Use UI v.2.0 looks like this:

Document Scanner V2
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Cropping Screen startCroppingScreen migration​

As well as the Document Scanner, the Cropping UI has been updated to version v.2.0. Even though you may use the review screen to call the cropping screen, you can also call the cropping screen separately.

The configuration of the Ready-to-Use UI has changed. The new version of the Ready-to-Use UI is more flexible and allows you to configure the UI more easily.

Imagine you had the following CroppingConfiguration configuration for the Ready-to-Use UI v.1.0 startCroppingScreen:

Cropping UI V1
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The new configuration for the Ready-to-Use UI v.2.0 looks like this:

Cropping UI V2
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Finder Document Scanner startFinderDocumentScanner migration​

Unlike in the Ready-to-Use UI v.1.0 where you could use a separate Finder Document Scanner, in the new version of the Ready-to-Use UI, you can use the DocumentScanningFlow to configure the camera screen with the finder aspect ratio.

The configuration migration would then be similar to the Document Scanner configuration.

Imagine you had the following FinderDocumentScannerConfiguration configuration for the Ready-to-Use UI v.1.0 startFinderDocumentScanner:

Finder Document Scanner V1
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The configuration for the Ready-to-Use UI v.2.0 would look like this:

Finder Document Scanner V2
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Storage migration​

To migrate the stored pages created with RTU UI v.1.0 and based on the legacy Page objects to the new RTU UI v.2.0 DocumentData model, you can use the provided migration functionalities.

During the migration process, the SDK takes the old metadata and original images and stores them in a new document, reapplying all the changes.

Take a look at the example below:

Migrating legacy Page objects
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