How viable is it to use this library?

[sdraper69]

On the face of it this seems to do exactly what I want, and indeed the demo works great.

However when i have come to implement this myself I am coming across a known error on all browsers (see here , here , and here )

I appriciate this is a free library and I don't expect the creators to be updating it till the end of time, however my question is for real uses, my understanding is that this is using relativly new (and hence evolving) technology, so i expect it to break from time to time but in your experience is it actual viable to use? Have i just got unlucky and started to use this when its had its first major problem? I dont have the skills to fix issues like this myself, and it seems as though they may not be fixed for quite sometime? What are your experiences?

If anyone knows of alternatives (even paid ones) that maybe better suited to someone who requires it to be maintained I would appriciate any suggestions

[kibagami-jubei]

Seems to crash randomly on iOS and Safari. Seems stable so far on Chrome and windows.

[simmani5]

I did not open this
but I wish it works

Not all browser suport HTML5

[kibagami-jubei]

I'm starting to think that this library is no longer useful.

[nickmi]

works perfectly and fast on chrome and electron

[kibagami-jubei]

works perfectly and fast on chrome and electron

Can you give us some code to see how you're handling these core objects?

[matias2018]

It just stopped working.
Will you help us with this?
Thnx

[nickmi]

works perfectly and fast on chrome and electron

Can you give us some code to see how you're handling these core objects?

I am very busy with exams right now. I will post some code when i will have some time. Other than that indeed it seems that it does crash and hogs resources when the webcam is left open for a certain period of time

[adammcfadden]

It's been over a year since I've used this library, but this issue is still present #74.

If I recall correctly, this issue can be attributed with crashing if left open for a period of time, with the actual issue being if it scans more than 20 times in a row after setup. I've got a forked version that gets around this issue, and will leave it up until this repo integrates the PR.

Seems to be covered already, but anything on iOS and Safari have issues. I had good results running this in a locked down version of chromium on an android tablet.

From what I can tell this library is no longer being maintained, but still a viable option if you can control the browse and device that is being used.