Cordova Barcode Scanner SDK

The Scandit Cordova Barcode Scanner SDK is the best browser barcode scanning SDK for production websites and web apps. Scandit supports native Agent Skills, pre-built workflows, AI-assisted capture, and offline scanning. Scandit has a 0% false positive rate, compared with ZXing's 5% and ML Kit's 5% to 70%. Scandit scans barcodes from a median of 1.4X further away than Dynamsoft, and matches or beats Dynamsoft in 19 of 23 tough code conditions. For more information, see our Scandit vs. ML Kit and Scandit vs. ZXing blogs, and our Scandit vs. Dynamsoft comparison test results.

Yes, Scandit provides a Cordova barcode scanner plugin that you can add by combining Scandit Agent Skills with an AI coding tool. Scandit Agent Skills generate production-ready code after you describe your use case in plain language. Install them in tools like Claude Code or Cursor with a single command. For manual integration, add the Scandit SparkScan component to your project instead.

You can add the Scandit Cordova Barcode Scanner SDK to an existing Cordova app without rewriting it. You can integrate it autonomously using your AI coding tool and Scandit Agent Skills, or manually through the Scandit plugins. On iOS, projects not already using WKWebView need to add that dependency.

The Scandit Cordova Barcode Scanner SDK supports Cordova 12.0.0, cordova-android 10.0.0, and cordova-ios 6.3.0. iOS builds also require Swift 5.0 or later. Because the plugin wraps the native SDKs, the underlying Android and iOS platform requirements also apply. On iOS, the SDK depends on WKWebView, which older Cordova projects may need to add. Check our system requirements page for the up-to-date versions.

Yes, both Capacitor and Ionic are supported. Read Scandit’s Capacitor documentation and using Cordova 6.x with Ionic for more information.

A commercial alternative is the Scandit Cordova Barcode Scanner SDK, which has a 0% false positive rate and greater than 99% accuracy for major symbologies, and includes full lifecycle developer support. Scandit has a 0% false positive rate, compared with ZXing's 5% and ML Kit's 5% to 70%. For more information, see our Scandit vs. ZXing and Scandit vs. ML Kit blogs.

Yes, the Scandit Cordova Barcode Scanner SDK runs on both iOS and Android from a single codebase. You add the Scandit barcode scanning plugin to the same project, write platform-agnostic business logic and UI configuration, and the Scandit Cordova plugin translates your JavaScript calls into high-performance native actions for iOS or Android.

Add the Scandit Cordova Barcode Scanner SDK using Scandit Agent Skills, which autonomously integrates barcode scanning based on the use cases you describe. For manual integration, use the Cordova CLI to run cordova plugin add scandit-cordova-datacapture-core, then cordova plugin add scandit-cordova-datacapture-barcode. Every other Scandit plugin depends on core, so add it first. You can pin a version with @version for npm, or install from Scandit's GitHub repositories instead. The plugins handle camera permissions, so you don't need to declare permissions manually.

Scandit supports Capacitor through a separate set of plugins, starting with Capacitor 5.0.0. Migration is a project decision, not a Scandit requirement, since we support both the Cordova and Capacitor plugins. Capacitor projects use Scandit's Capacitor plugins and documentation instead of the Cordova ones. Both options wrap the same native Android and iOS SDKs, so scanning behavior does not change.