Genius Scan SDK changelog

[3.0.24] - 2020-08-24

• [PDF] Add ability to set creation and last update dates of PDF files metadata.
• [UI] Fix bug where current page was saved when the validation dialog was canceled.
• [Core] Android: Properly throw an exception in perspective correction when quadrangle is invalid.
• [Core] iOS: Fix crash in perspective correction when two vertices of the quadrangle are really close.

[3.0.23] - 2020-07-21

• [UI] Improve translations, mainly in Turkish.
• [Android] Keep symbols in AARs to be able to track crashes (eg with Firebase Crashlytics). This shouldn’t result in bigger APKs since native symbols are stripped when built in Release mode.

[3.0.22] - 2020-07-15

• [OCR] Improve error reporting in TextLayoutToTextConverter.
• [UI] Improve German localization.
• [UI] iOS: Add cancel button when picking an image from the Photos or scanning directly from a URL.
• [UI] iOS: Prevent conflict between interactive pop gesture and dragging to adjust the document’s detected edges.

[3.0.21] - 2020-07-13

• [Android] Core: ScanFragment now checks if its parent fragment implements CameraCallbackProvider, not only its parent activity.
• [iOS] Fix crash with 64-bit images.
• [OCR] Fix TextLayoutToTextConverter issue on some images with no text.

[3.0.20] - 2020-07-06

• [Android] Fix a Proguard issue regarding TextLayoutToTextConverter class

[3.0.19] - 2020-06-23

• [Android] Fix dependencies of Maven artifacts
• [UI] Android: Fix a minor issue closing a dialog that was causing an error being logged
• [UI] Android: Fix Camera screen on devices with a 16:9 camera
• [OCR] Add a TextLayout to Text converter to convert OCR result into a legible text

[3.0.18] - 2020-05-12

• [iOS] SDK is now built with Xcode 11.4.1.
• [Flutter, RN, Cordova] Fix Android dependency (Bolt Tasks) that was causing a crash

[3.0.17] - 2020-05-05

• [OCR] Remove preprocessed parameter. This parameter let the caller specify that the image was already preprocessed for OCR and that the SDK didn’t need to reprocess it. The OCR stack will now always preprocess images for optimal results. The caller doesn’t have the ability to prevent that anymore.
• [UI] Fix some translations
• [UI] Android: optimize bitmap loading, especially for devices with a very large resolution camera

[3.0.16] - 2020-04-22

• [Core] Fix regression introduced in 3.0.15 where the PDF generation was broken if the images were resized during PDF generation.
• [OCR] Report error rather than crashing if language files are missing.

[3.0.15] - 2020-04-21

• [Core] Drastically reduce memory usage during PDF creation.

[3.0.14] - 2020-04-06

• Internal changes only

[3.0.13] - 2020-03-31

• [OCR] Improve quality of OCR for non-preprocessed images.

[3.0.12] - 2020-03-17

Changed

• [Cordova] Make plugin compatible with Capacitor

[3.0.11] - 2020-03-06

Changed

• [Flutter] Android: Fixed our plugin to work with the new plugin embedding system (for apps created with Flutter 1.12 and above)

[3.0.10] - 2020-01-10

Changed

• [OCR] Android: Improve interface and include a preprocessing step if requested. OcrProcessor should now be used.
• [ReactNative] Android: Fix jpegQuality and pdfMaxScanDimension that were Double values instead of integers.

[3.0.9] - 2019-11-29

Changed

• [Core] Android: Improve detectWarpEnhance method that takes a Bitmap as input and rename it to process now that it also handles distortion correction.

[3.0.8] - 2019-11-07

Changed

• [Flutter] Improve integration of the plugin on Android, it’s no longer needed to edit an app’s android/build.gradle file to include the plugin native libraries.
• [Flutter] Android: Fix crash when onActivityResult wasn’t called with this plugin request code.

[3.0.7] - 2019-10-21

Changed

• [Core] Improve the robustness of the distortion/curvature correction

Added

• [UI] Add a parameter jpegQuality to set the JPEG quality of scanned pages
• [UI] Add a parameter pdfMaxScanDimension to reduce size of pages before PDF generation

[3.0.6] - 2019-10-02

Changed

• [iOS] Prevent scan 180° rotation when iPhone is tilded upside down.
• [Flutter] Android: Migrate to AndroidX
• [Cordova] Android Support library version can now be passed as parameter when adding the plugin.
• [Android] Remove the uneeded permission WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE from manifest since SDK only writes to app specific directory.

[3.0.5] - 2019-09-19

Added

• [iOS] ScannerUI: the status bar color now automatically adapts to the chosen background color’s contrast (https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/WD-AERT/#color-contrast).

Changed

• [Flutter] Android: Fix return of setLicenceKey method. An error with message java.lang.IllegalStateException: Reply already submitted was logged before this fix.

[3.0.4] - 2019-09-12

Changed

• [iOS] Fix link issue by exposing some missing symbols

[3.0.3] - 2019-08-28

Added

• [Flutter] Add a Flutter plugin using the UI module of the SDK on pub.dev

Changed

• [Flutter/iOS] Fix a crash when canceling the scan flow
• [Android Cordova ReactNative] Parameter name imageUrl has been changed into image. This parameter still expects the image URL and not the image itself.
• [Android] UI: Fix visibility of a class to be able to access individual pages in scan flow result

[3.0.2] - 2019-07-31

• [iOS] Fixed missing symbol in GSKScannerUI framework. This was resulting in a linker error when trying to access the GSKScannerUI results as individual scans (GSKScannerUIScan).

[3.0.1] - 2019-07-22

Changed

• [Android] UI: Default multiPage to true
• [ReactNative] Ensure compatibility of plugin with ReactNative 0.60

[3.0.0] - 2019-07-09

As of this release, the native SDK and the cross-platform plugins will be versioned under the same version number

Added

• [Android, iOS] Add a new “Scanner UI” module that allows to start a customizable capture flow with 3 screens in one command
• [Android, iOS] Add a new “Simple demo” app that shows how to use the Scanner UI module
• [Android] Split SDK into 3 libraries (AAR): gs-sdk (core scanning methods and PDF generation), gs-sdk-ocr (text and layout extraction from an image), gs-sdk-ui (simple scan flow UI)
• [iOS] Split SDK into three frameworks: GSSDK, GSSDKScannerUI and GSSDKOCR
• Add localization into 10 new languages
• [iOS] Utils: Add methods to rotate and fix orientation of an image
• [iOS] Utils: Add method to scale an image

Changed

• [ReactNative, Cordova] Switched to using the new SDK Scanner UI module
• [iOS] API: Improved documentation
• [iOS] API: Cleaned up API for Swift
• [iOS] Camera UI: Redesigned shutter button
• [iOS] Camera UI: Added animation when document is detected
• [iOS] API: Renamed filters Color -> Photo, Whiteboard -> Color
• [Android] UI: Fix shutter button not animating after camera permission dialog.

Removed

• [Cordova, ReactNative] Removed support for title, password for the generated PDF file
• [iOS] Removed distortion correction from iOS native demo

[ReactNative_2.5.2] - 2019-06-10

Changed

• [Android] Fixed setLicenceKey method which was not returning properly

[ReactNative_2.5.1, Cordova_2.5.1] - 2019-05-07

Changed

• [Cordova, ReactNative] Fixed typos in UI
• [Cordova, ReactNative] Android: Fixed layout issue

[ReactNative_2.5.0, Cordova_2.5.0] - 2019-04-30

Changed

• [Cordova, ReactNative] Android: Page format for PDF generation is FIT rather than A4
• [Cordova, ReactNative] Android: PDF title is used for filename, in addition to PDF metadata
• [Cordova, ReactNative] Android: Image type was incorrectly detected on original image, instead of warped image

Added

• [Cordova, ReactNative] Document detection status
• [Cordova, ReactNative] Scan functions now return original image Uri, in addition to enhanced image

[2.4.2] 2019-03-07

Added

• [Android] Made focus before trigger optional

Changed

• [iOS, Android] Improved OCR progress report (was between 0 and 70, should be between 0 and 100 now)
• [Android] Improved speed of OCR

[2.4.1] 2019-03-05

Changed

• [Android] Correctly throw exception when SDK initialized with incorrect license key
• [Android] Support landscape camera screen
• [iOS] Fix AutoTrigger flag that couldn’t be disabled

[2.4] [ReactNative_2.4.2, Cordova_2.4.2] 2019-02-27

Added

• [iOS, Android] Added OCR. Ability to extract text and layout from an image and generate PDF documents with this text information to make it searchable and selectable.
• [iOS] Added distortion correction to demo
• [React] Added ability to specificy “ENHANCEMENT_NONE” to avoid filter phase
• [React] Added cancel button on iOS camera screen
• [React] Added automatic photo trigger on Android

Changed

• [Cordova] Compatibility with android-cordova >= v7.0.0

[2.3.4] 2019-02-20

[2.3.3] 2019-01-29

Added

• [iOS, Android] Added distortion correction
• [Android] Added support x86_64 architecture

Changed

• [iOS] Fixed crash with B&W images (#274)
• Improved exceptions handling (eg license check) (#280)
• [Android] Upgraded to Android P
• [Android] Upgraded OpenCV to 3.4.3

[ReactNative_2.4.1] 2018-12-05

Changed

• [React] Fixed wrong method name to set license key

[ReactNative_2.4.0] 2018-12-05

Added

• PDF generation with generatePDF
• Selecting an enhancement type by default with defaultEnhancement option

Changed

• [iOS] Fix crash on ipad when clicking “Edit” button

• [Android] Fix error when activity result code too long

• [iOS] Bump minim version to iOS 11. Removed armv7 armv7s and i386 architectures.

[2.3.2] 2018-08-22

• [Android] Fixed export in demo for Android 7 and above

[2.3.1] 2018-07-25

• [iOS] Fixed resize of scaled image
• [Android] Added Auto Trigger to demo
• [Cordova] Added upgrade instructions to doc

[2.3] 2018-11-07

• [iOS] Added Auto Trigger to demo app
• [Android] Camera is released in an async task
• [ReactNative] Added plugin and demo
• [Cordova] Breaking changes:
  • Licence needs to be set via setLicence
  • scan is now scanImage
  • New method to scan from camera scanCamera

[2.2] 2018-06-26

• [iOS] Fixed empty Apple documentation
• [iOS] On iPad, changed picture orientation to be based on UI instead of sensors
• [Android] Breaking change
  • ScanFragment is now a fragment from the Support library, instead of a native fragment
• [Android] SDK is now published to our Maven repository on S3

[2.1.9] 2018-03-06

• [Android] Fixed Proguard

[2.1.8] 2018-02-27

• [Android] Fixed logging, especially to notify that SDK is not initialized
• [Cordova] Changed demo app to use image instead of camera in simulator
• [Cordova] Upgraded SDK, added docs for Plugman and Ionic

[2.1.7] 2017-01-31

• [iOS] Reduced size of SDK: footprint of Universal IPA according to App Thinning Report (~ 500 KB)
• [iOS] Removed need for adding OpenCV dependency to Podfile
• Updated READMEs

[2.1.6] 2017-01-18

• Added timer to allow tests for a minute without a license

[2.1.5] 2017-01-08

• [iOS] Added support for bitcode and Xcode 9.2

[2.1.10] 2018-04-03

• Improved enhancement of shadows in B&W
• [iOS] Added Appledoc
• [Android] Changed preview to stop after each picture is taken
• [Cordova] Added translations: de, en, es, fr, it, ja, pt-BR, ru, zh-Hans, zh-Hant