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Show HN: Card Camera – SDK for scanning credit cards into your mobile app

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Not sure if this is meant for Show HN. I think ShowHN requires a working product and not a "coming soon" page.

Gotcha, didn't realize. We're several weeks away from fully working product (tried to be transparent on the page about timing), but have figured out the hardest part (generic OCR algo to read the numbers). Was hoping to get some feedback on the direction / interest level in advance of full completion, but this may not be the right forum.

FWIW, I think it's a great idea :) Just post here again when you have something people can try out and give you feedback.

Thanks, and will do!

Hey HN, I loved the experience of card scan products, but found they don't work well with more recent card designs. We're re-implementing the OCR algorithms from the ground up to work on a much broader range of card types, and also doing some checks to make sure the cards are real (which will help a lot with fraud).

Would love to answer any questions and hear thoughts!

> Would love to answer any questions and hear thoughts!

do you have anything to show? right now it looks like an advertisement - would love to see an sdk, or link to the source, or something more than an email capture page.

Gotcha.

Unfortunately what we have isn't really sharable yet, but we're planning to update as soon as it is - but I get this isn't that helpful when you want to play around with it. We figured out the hard part (OCR algo is pulling the card info) and were hoping to get some feedback on the direction / interest level / use case before completing all the rest of it which will take us several more weeks. We'll journey on.

Don't know i found that if there is no apple pay/paypal checkout I'm not going to complete the purchase anyhow unless it's a life or death matter.

IOS already has OCR capabilities for CC which works fairly well I wonder if Apple will extend it to Safari in general.

Thanks for the feedback!

Our goal for the experience is the Apple Pay OCR experience, but it's embeddable directly in apps (so users don't have to already have it set up, if they prefer to use cards, or navigate to apple pay and come back). I agree this would be for the users not using Apple Pay.

Long term, I agree the trend is moving toward apple pay and digitized payments, but I found lots of people still like / prefer credit cards (so trend is that direction, but slope isn't super high and it'll take a while). I'm also excited about the fraud benefit of this kind of solution for bigger orgs that deal with fraud.

Make sure you test it against cards that have both valid from and valid till dates on them for some reason this still fucks the Apple Pay OCR and it’s quite common on EU at least on UK cards.

So if there are two dates assume that the more senior one is the expiry date.

Great advice, thank you! We'll make sure the date stuff works.

For EU cards, one experience I'm excited about supporting is the "tap to add" flow which may be even easier than OCR. Unfortunately only Android supports it for now, but love that experience when it's possible.

You’re google wallet is integrated with Chrome and Chrome stores CC info also separately so yeah on Android it’s a different story for users with Google play devices and those who wants to store their details in chrome/google pay at least.

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