Open Bug 1553738 Opened 6 years ago Updated 1 month ago

Feature Request: Implement the Shape Detection API `BarcodeDetector` and `FaceDetector`

Categories

(GeckoView :: General, enhancement, P3)

Product:
GeckoView
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: steiner.thomas, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.38 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

The Shape Detection API (https://wicg.github.io/shape-detection-api/) defines detectors for faces (https://wicg.github.io/shape-detection-api/#face-detection-api) and barcodes (https://wicg.github.io/shape-detection-api/#barcode-detection-api), both of which are natively supported by the Android Camera app. This API exposes these OS-level detectors to web applications through straight-forward interfaces.

There is a well-documented industry case where native barcode detection would help from eBay: https://medium.com/ebaytech/webassembly-at-ebay-a-real-world-use-case-ef888f38b537.

Type: defect → enhancement
Component: DOM: Device Interfaces → Audio/Video
Product: Core → Firefox for Android
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P3
Component: Audio/Video → General
Product: Firefox for Android → GeckoView

Hi, I just want to know if there is any timetable to support the BarcodeDetector API ?

I would love to know if thats something that will be implemented in near future

Firefox has recently added experimental functional text recognition, similar to Text Detection API.

Like PiP1 API, I hope that Firefox can export these APIs for web developers instead of as built -in functions.

Severity: normal → S3

Tasks and enhancements should have severity N/A.

Severity: S3 → N/A

Five years have passed, any news?

It would be really helpful to have BarcodeDetector https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BarcodeDetector

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