Front camera not performing scanning about blinkid-ios

[MBrizic01]

Hello @JacopoOrlandini
I wanted to recap here what we discussed over the email so that it can serve as a reference to anyone interested in the topic.
What you are experiencing is not related to a bug. It is a limitation of the front camera on the iPad.

The front camera on the iPad 7th and 9th Gen does not have autofocus, which is a big part of scanning the document since it can focus on a particular part, making SDK perform significantly better, as you can read here.
Also, the image quality is far better on the back camera on the iPad 7th gen (8 megapixels compared to the 1.2 megapixels on the front).
We recommend using the back camera for all our clients since it has better image quality with autofocus.

I hope this information can be helpful to all our users, and we are closing the issue.

[JacopoOrlandini]

Leave a comment for future reference.

Camera Settings

The following snippet increases the success rate of decoding a document

  MBCameraSettings *cameraSettings = [[MBCameraSettings alloc] init];
  --> cameraSettings.cameraType = MBCameraTypeFront;
  --> cameraSettings.cameraPreset = MBCameraPresetMax;
  MBBlinkIdOverlaySettings *settings = [[MBBlinkIdOverlaySettings alloc] init];
  settings.cameraSettings = cameraSettings;
  MBRecognizerCollection *recognizerCollections = [[MBRecognizerCollection alloc] initWithRecognizers:@[self.blickIdRecognizer]];
  MBBlinkIdOverlayViewController *blinkIdOverlayViewController = [[MBBlinkIdOverlayViewController alloc] initWithSettings:settings recognizerCollection:recognizerCollections delegate:self];

Environment Condition

External variables that a developer cannot control but to keep in mind

• Good light environment => greater success rate

Thanks for all the support

[MBrizic01]

@JacopoOrlandini Thank you for reporting here what we discussed over the mail. Happy to hear it helped you!