iOS Credit Card Scanner Module
Overview
Credit card scanning is a powerful feature designed to detect, read, and extract data from credit cards. This functionality allows your application to quickly and securely capture card details, including the card number, expiry date and cardholder name.
By utilizing advanced card detection, credit card scanning ensures accurate data extraction even under varying conditions, such as different card orientations, lighting, or backgrounds. The extracted data is provided in a structured format, enabling seamless integration into payment processing systems, loyalty programs, and other applications requiring card details.
Credit card scanning simplifies the process, improves user experience, and enhances security by reducing manual data entry. It is widely used in e-commerce, mobile payments, and point-of-sale systems, where fast, reliable, and secure card capture is essential.
Integration
There are two ways to integrate the UI components into your application:
On iOS, processing very large images can lead to out-of-memory crashes!
Since this limit is highly dynamic and untransparent in iOS (depending on the device, your app's current memory usage, other apps running in the background, the iOS version, the system configuration, and many other factors), we did not add a hard limit for image sizes.
As a rule of thumb, it is safe to assume that processing images with resolutions that match the camera's resolution will not crash your app. On most modern iOS devices, this translates to 12 megapixels. But even much larger images may work without crashing.
Therefore, we cannot take responsibility for out-of-memory crashes when dealing with very high-resolution images. You as the developer need to properly manage the handling of large images and keep the memory footprint of your app as small as possible.
If you have any questions on this topic, please reach out to our support team.
Please do not use multiple scanners at the same time. For example, do not combine Document Data Extractor, Health Insurance Scanner, Text Pattern Scanner, etc. at the same time! Each scanner instance requires a lot of memory, GPU, and processor resources. Using multiple scanners will lead to performance issues for the entire application.
Take a look at our example apps to see how to integrate the Credit Card Scanner:
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