Reputation: 274
I am developing a qr-code reader app in Xcode with swift. I scanned qr-code with the following code:
import UIKit
import AVFoundation
class ScannerViewController: UIViewController {
var captureSession = AVCaptureSession()
var videoPreviewLayer: AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer?
var qrCodeFrameView: UIView?
var scannerMetadataObj : AVMetadataMachineReadableCodeObject?
@IBOutlet weak var testImageView: UIImageView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let deviceDiscoverySession = AVCaptureDevice.DiscoverySession(deviceTypes: [.builtInWideAngleCamera], mediaType: AVMediaType.video, position: .back)
guard let captureDevice = deviceDiscoverySession.devices.first else {
print("Failed to get the camera device")
return
}
do {
let input = try AVCaptureDeviceInput(device: captureDevice)
captureSession.addInput(input)
let captureMetadataOutput = AVCaptureMetadataOutput()
captureSession.addOutput(captureMetadataOutput)
captureMetadataOutput.setMetadataObjectsDelegate(self, queue: DispatchQueue.main)
captureMetadataOutput.metadataObjectTypes = supportedCodeTypes
} catch {
return
}
videoPreviewLayer = AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer(session: captureSession)
videoPreviewLayer?.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravity.resizeAspectFill
videoPreviewLayer?.frame = view.layer.bounds
view.layer.addSublayer(videoPreviewLayer!)
qrCodeFrameView = UIView()
if let qrCodeFrameView = qrCodeFrameView {
qrCodeFrameView.layer.borderColor = UIColor.green.cgColor
qrCodeFrameView.layer.borderWidth = 2
view.addSubview(qrCodeFrameView)
view.bringSubviewToFront(qrCodeFrameView)
}
}
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
captureSession.startRunning()
}
override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
captureSession.stopRunning()
qrCodeFrameView?.frame = CGRect.zero
}
}
extension ScannerViewController: AVCaptureMetadataOutputObjectsDelegate {
func metadataOutput(_ output: AVCaptureMetadataOutput, didOutput metadataObjects: [AVMetadataObject], from connection: AVCaptureConnection) {
// Check if the metadataObjects array is not nil and it contains at least one object.
if metadataObjects.count == 0 {
qrCodeFrameView?.frame = CGRect.zero
return
}
// Get the metadata object.
let metadataObj = metadataObjects[0] as! AVMetadataMachineReadableCodeObject
scannerMetadataObj = metadataObj
let barCodeObject = videoPreviewLayer?.transformedMetadataObject(for: metadataObj)
qrCodeFrameView?.frame = barCodeObject!.bounds
self.testImageView.image = // set image with qr-code
}
}
after scanning qr-code, I want to get image of qr-code and set image of testImageView to obtained image. How it is possible? I am doing this because I want to save that image in database for future use. Here My only question is how to get image of qr-code from videoPreviewLayer and set image of testImageView to that image.
Upvotes: 3
Views: 4009
Reputation: 1410
You can add AVCapturePhotoOutput and capturePhoto when needed.
Add two properties at ScannerViewController:
private let photoOutput = AVCapturePhotoOutput()
private var isCapturing = false
Add new output to captureSession at viewDidLoad:
captureSession.addOutput(photoOutput)
Invoke capturePhoto at metadataOutput method and remember capturing state. Because metadataOutput method can be invoked very often:
let photoSettings = AVCapturePhotoSettings()
if !isCapturing {
isCapturing = true
photoOutput.capturePhoto(with: photoSettings, delegate: self)
}
Implement AVCapturePhotoCaptureDelegate protocol:
extension ScannerViewController: AVCapturePhotoCaptureDelegate {
func photoOutput(_ output: AVCapturePhotoOutput, didFinishProcessingPhoto photo: AVCapturePhoto, error: Error?) {
isCapturing = false
guard let imageData = photo.fileDataRepresentation() else {
print("Error while generating image from photo capture data.");
return
}
guard let qrImage = UIImage(data: imageData) else {
print("Unable to generate UIImage from image data.");
return
}
testImageView.image = qrImage
}
}
Also good idea to make some additional photo settings and error handling if needed.
Upvotes: 5