How to Build a Cross-Platform Barcode, MRZ, and Document Scanner with .NET MAUI Blazor
Extracting structured data from barcodes, passports, and documents usually requires separate native implementations per platform. This tutorial uses .NET MAUI Blazor’s BlazorWebView to host the Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK, delivering a single Razor codebase that handles all three capture modes.
What you’ll learn
- How to set up Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK in a .NET MAUI Blazor project
- Platform-specific setup: Android
WebChromeClientfor camera permissions, macOSAVFoundationfor native camera access - Three scanning modes: barcode reading, MRZ field extraction from passports/IDs, and document boundary detection
- Live camera streaming with real-time decoding and overlay rendering
- Browser-side homography for document perspective correction — no server round-trip