Changelog

[Tire] Changed default upsideDown value to AUTO (for Tire Identification Number, Tire Size, Tire Make, and Commercial Tire ID)

[Tire] Improved the scanning experience of the Tire Make scanner

[License Plate] Removed list of European countries from result schema

[Universal ID] default minimum confidence for fields is now set to 60

[Universal ID] Improved lower-case field recognition

[Universal ID] Improved scan robustness for AT and DE DVL layouts

[License Plate] Fixed a bug that prevented Ireland license plates from scanning

[License Plate] Fixed a bug where an exception would be thrown when a country was scanned which was not part of the country list of result schema

[License Plate] Fix brightness based auto-flash mode

[Barcode] Fixed a bug where barcode was not able to handle some unicode symbols

[Barcode] Fix crash on empty barcode results

Fixed scan feedback config problems when using animated_rect style, and other visual issues when on landscape

Fixed issue with custom scripts for OCR not working when copied as a directory reference

The enumeration constants ALScanFeedbackStyleContourUnderline and ALScanFeedbackStyleContourPoint are deprecated in this version. They will be removed in a future release.

[Universal ID] Added new template for Latin script:

[Meter] Added functionality to define a maximum number of decimal digits for the AUTO_ANALOG_DIGITAL_METER scan mode

[OCR] Replaced ALOcrConfig property model (an NSString) with models (an array of NSString)

[Tire] Added new Tire Make scanner supporting 49 manufacturers

[Universal ID] Added new templates for Latin script:

Fix config issue in feedback view (non-animated_rect) where scanFeedbackConfig.strokeWidth is being ignored when set to 0

[Universal ID] Modified templates for Latin script:

[Tire] Improved accuracy and smaller SDK size for Universal TIN

[Tire] Removed DOT_STRICT scan mode from Tire Identification Number (DOT) technical capability

[Tire] Validation regex is now configurable from pluginConfig

new: parallelFirstScan processing mode in ALViewPluginComposite

[Barcode] Added base64value to barcode object in the barcode result

[Tire] Added productionDate, tireAgeInYearsRoundedDown, resultPrettified to TIN result

[Tire] Added option to disable production date validation for TIN

[ID] Added the following layouts for American ID cards

cancelOnResult values in child plugins in composites are now ignored

removed "reportingValues: (null)" console log

fixed crashes while initializing ALViewPluginComposite from ALNFCDetector

fixed empty date result on ID / MRZ scans when device settings is using 12 hour clock

fixed a random crash related to AVCaptureSession when initializing ALScanView

fixed issue using custom flash button images

[ID] Fixed a bug where the MRZ scanner would not recognize 'H' on mexican ID’s

Fixed a bug where startScanDelay would not be applied correctly

removed some redundant class members from public API: (showPopup from ALLicenseUtil, -[initWithDelegate:licenseUtil:error:]

barcode results no longer only shown as base-64-encoded

[Barcode] The coordinates in the barcode result are now relative to the full image instead of the scanned region

[Tire] Improved accuracy for TIN/DOT recognition & detection

[ID] Improved performance for ID scanning

[ID] Improved accuracy scanning Turkish IDs

[Barcode] Removed isBase64 from barcode object in the barcode result

[ID] Removed layoutDefinition, drivingLicenseString & idFrontString from ID result

Added ALPluginConfig for describing configuration data

Added ALPluginResult for describing result data

[Tire] Added tire size specification fields to the result

[Barcode] Added AAMVA parsing for PDF417 codes on driving licenses

[ID] Restructured ID results in a way that every field can contain date- & multi-language information

Changed the SDK architecture from one using inheritance & generics to a composition-based approach

Changed the structure of how scanning use-cases are constructed through JSON

Introduced configuration types for every scanning use-case with a corresponding result type

Because of the fundamental nature of changes, there are no deprecations to list for this version.

startScanDelay does not work at the moment.