✨ Support export of rawBytes/Data in barcode scanning about react-native-vision-camera HOT 2 OPEN

I searched for similar feature requests in this repository and found none.

This is a duplicate of #2572.

Anyways - we can leave this open, but there is no way to get the raw binary data of a QR code on iOS using the iOS APIs for barcode reading.

I will not replace the iOS implementation with MLKit - I explained that in a lot of other issues already, the iOS implementation is a "free" extra Camera output, whereas using MLKit would require to be put into a Frame Processor.

So if I use MLKit on iOS, you'd need to enable Frame Processors, download the additional dependency, and potentially also introduce higher CPU usage, thermal usage and RAM usage.

I believe the iOS APIs are much more optimized and extremely lightweight. Also, no dependency on Google APIs.

from react-native-vision-camera.

If you absolutely need binary data - just use a Frame Processor Plugin, as mentioned in #2572. You can easily use MLKit's APIs from Frame Processor Plugins with just a few tiny lines of native code :)

from react-native-vision-camera.