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.NET MAUI Document Scanner SDK

Overview

The .NET MAUI Document Scanner SDK is a powerful and easy-to-integrate software development kit for turning smartphones and tablets into fast and reliable document scanners.

Features include:

  • User guidance: Ease of use is crucial for large user bases. The on-screen user guidance helps even non-tech-savvy users create perfect scans.

  • Automatic capture: The SDK automatically captures the document when the device is optimally positioned over the document. This reduces the risk of blurry or incomplete document scans compared to manually triggered captures.

  • Automatic cropping: The SDK automatically straightens and crops scanned documents, ensuring high-quality document scan results.

  • Image filters: Every document scanning use case has specific image requirements. With the SDK’s custom filters, you can tailor the document scanning image output to your backend system. They include grayscale options, multiple binarizations, and other settings to optimize your document scanning for various document types.

  • Document Quality Analyzer: This feature automatically rates the quality of the scanned pages from “very poor” to “excellent.” If the quality is below a specified threshold, the SDK prompts the user to rescan.

  • Multiple export formats: The SDK supports several output formats for exporting digitized documents, such as JPG, PDF, and TIFF. This ensures your downstream solutions receive the best format to store, print, or share the digitized document — or to process it further.

With the Ready-to-Use UI Components (RTU UI), you can integrate the SDK's scanning functionalities with only a few lines of code. This way, you can benefit from tried-and-true UX design and straightforward integration while still being able to customize the visual appearance to match your brand.

If you want full control over the scanner's appearance, you can instead use the SDK's Custom UI Components to build a fully customized scanning experience yourself.

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The ScanbotSDK.NET NuGet package includes .NET bindings for the native Scanbot SDKs on Android and iOS. It provides comprehensive support for the majority of features offered by the native SDKs.

The ScanbotSDK.MAUI package, built on ScanbotSDK.NET, provides wrappers tailored for MAUI integration. It includes Ready-to-Use UI Components for various scanning use cases.

Requirements

Developer tools

  • Microsoft Visual Studio
    • Visual Studio Code on Mac: using .NET MAUI extension
    • Visual Studio for Windows: using version 17.3 or greater
  • JetBrains Rider 2023.1 or greater
  • For iOS development: macOS with latest Xcode and Command Line Tools
  • For Android development: Android SDK and Java SDK version 17+

Mobile platforms

  • Android 5.0 (API Level 21) and higher
  • iOS 13 and higher

Mobile devices

  • Rear-facing camera with autofocus
  • Supported CPUs and Architectures:
    • Android: armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a, x86, x86_64
    • iOS: arm64, x86_64

No internet connection required

The Scanbot SDK works completely offline. It does not even contain any networking code. This can easily be verified by routing all networking traffic coming from the app through a proxy.

All data generated by the Scanbot SDK is only stored on the end user's device and in absolutely no case ever transferred to a server or cloud service controlled by us. You have full control over how you upload the scans and data to your backend.

Simulators/emulators

While it is possible to test your app with the Scanbot SDK on simulators/emulators, we strongly recommend using real iOS/Android devices.

Depending on the emulated camera, you may not be able to test and evaluate the full functionality of the Scanbot SDK.

Get in touch

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