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System requirements Pixelnetica™ Document Scanning SDK for Apple iOS

Platform

  • iOS 16.3 or later. This is a hard minimum — the SDK does not load on earlier versions.
  • Swift or Objective-C. The core engine (DocScanningSDK) exposes an Objective-C API usable from both. The ready-to-use UI (DocScanningSDK-UI) is Swift.
  • Xcode 15 or later, with Swift Package Manager (the package manifest targets swift-tools-version: 5.9). SwiftPM is the only supported integration channel — see Installation.

Architectures

The SDK ships as binary xcframeworks with slices for:

  • arm64 — physical iPhone and iPad devices.
  • arm64 / x86_64 simulator — Apple-silicon and Intel Macs running the iOS Simulator.

Device vs Simulator

  • Live camera capture requires a real device — the Simulator has no camera, so the camera scanner cannot run there.
  • On the Simulator you can still exercise the rest of the pipeline by importing an existing image (from Photos or a file) and running detection, cropping, enhancement, OCR, and export.

Permissions

  • Camera: add NSCameraUsageDescription to your Info.plist to use the camera scanner. iOS requires it before the camera can start.
  • Photo library: if you import images from the user’s photo library, add the relevant photo-library usage description as well.

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