Super easy SwiftUI & UKKit pakcage to scan: Images or PDF. It is also a replacement for IRLScannerViewController

A convenient class usable from UIKit view controller or SwiftUI to scan document & get UIImage or PDFDocument as result

MINIMUM iOS REQUIREMENT: 13.0

Migration from IRLScannerViewController is feasible. Please check the tutorial available in the documentation.

Follow the tutorial to see how to beneficiate from the new system & remove the depreciation warnings.

One quick note, the new system support multiple scan. In this tutorial we cover how to get 1 scan. It is very straigth forward to get eveything else, check the doc.

As of iOS 10, you must povide a reason for using the camera in you Info.plist: Please add the following to your plist: NSCameraUsageDescription : We need the camera to scan

Integrate the library via Swift Package (With Documentation)

Add the Package to your project, min version 5.5, See Apple Documentation for more details.

Create a Package.swift in a folder, then Drop the file on Xcode

// swift-tools-version:5.5
// The swift-tools-version declares the minimum version of Swift required to build this package.
import PackageDescription
let package = Package(
    name: "SPMDemo",
    products: [
        .library(
            name: "SPMDemo",
            targets: ["SPMDemo"]),
    ],
    dependencies: [
       .package(url: "git@github.com:charlymr/IRLPDFScanContent.git", from: "1.1.0"),
    ],
    targets: [
        .target( name: "SPMDemo",
            dependencies: [
                .product(name: "IRLPDFScanContent", package: "IRLPDFScanContent"),
        ])
    ]
)

Integrate the library via CocoaPods

if not already available:

$ [sudo] gem install cocoapods
$ pod setup

Change to the directory of your Xcode project, and Create and Edit your Podfile and add IRLPDFScanContent:

$ cd /path/to/MyProject
$ touch Podfile
## edit Podfile:

platform :ios, '13.0'

target "YOUR APP" do
    pod 'IRLPDFScanContent'
    use_frameworks!
end

run pod update or pod install to generate the Workspace

$ pod update

Integrate the library via Carthage. For more details on Cartage and how to use it, check the Carthage Github documentation

Install Carthage if not already available

Change to the directory of your Xcode project, and Create and Edit your CartFile and add IRLPDFScanContent:

$ cd /path/to/MyProject
$ touch CartFile
## edit CartFile:

github "charlymr/IRLPDFScanContent" ~> 1.1.0

$ carthage update --use-xcframeworks 

Drop the Carthage/Build/iOS .xcframework in your project.

IRLPDFScanContent is a convenient way to use PDFKit in SwiftUI allowing the user to scan multiple pages and create a PDF for you. This tutorials will guides you through adding this functionality to a SwiftUI view or a UIVIewController. You will learn to build the view and hanlde the user input.

Chech the documentation (Essentials / Getting Started) here: Documentation for more details.

• Initiate the object
• present you view present(animated:)
• Observe the result of latestScan
• Use the convenient method swiftUIPDFView to update your view

import SwiftUI
import IRLPDFScanContent

struct ContentView: View {
    
    @ObservedObject var scanner: IRLPDFScanContent = IRLPDFScanContent()
        
    var body: some View {
        NavigationView {
            VStack() {
                 if let latestScan = scanner.latestScan {
                    latestScan.swiftUIPDFView
                    
                } else {
                    Text("Press the Scan button")
                }
            }
            .padding()
            .navigationBarItems(trailing: Button("Scan", action: {
                scanner.present(animated: true, completion: nil)
            }))
        }
    }
}

struct ContentView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
    static var previews: some View {
        ContentView()
    }
}

• Denis Martin-Bruilot | Web: www.irlmobile.com | LinkedIN: denismartin

• Feel free to fork and modify this code. Pull requests are more than welcome!

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