cordova-plugin-scanbot-sdk

Scanbot Document and Barcode Scanner SDK for Cordova

The Scanbot SDK brings scanning and document creation capabilities to your mobile apps.

This Cordova plugin provides implementations of the Scanbot Document Scanner SDK for Android and iOS.

Example App

👉 Ionic example app

Documentation

For the full API reference of the Scanbot SDK Cordova Plugin please check out the documentation.

HTML5 Camera

Development

You'd ideally work in scanbot-sdk-example-ionic with a local copy of ScanbotSDK:

• "cordova-plugin-scanbot-sdk": "file:../scanbot-sdk-cordova-plugin",

That allows you to work directly with the typescript file (even modifying it from the example repository). Though, do pay attention where you're situated:

• If you're working in the plugins directory, then the SDK repository won't be updated
• If you're working in the node_modules directory, it will.

Cf. where you're importing the SDK from:

• import {ScanbotHTMLCamera} from '../../../plugins/cordova-plugin-scanbot-sdk/camera';

Release

Rant

Your working file, camera.ts, is not supposed to be in the npm package. I mean, you can put it there, but then the reference of your end-product needs to look exactly like the one defined above, as a local reference. The Angular typescript compiler will flip the table if it sees third-party typescript.

So, you either reference the typescript as your own, or work with type definitions and transpiled javascript.

God knows why it was designed like this, it makes absolutely no sense from an architectural perspective. Perhaps something-something different versions of typescript not being backwards compatible.

Requirements

• npm install -g typescript-compiler

Transpilation and typings

Either way, transpiling to javascript is simple enough. Before releasing be sure to:

• tsc --declaration camera.ts

This should update both camera.js and camera.d.ts, which are actually part of your final package