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by michaelt 1562 days ago
> does anyone know why this is ”native” API and not just a generic image processing script

Consider the following facts:

1. This was designed by Google

2. Google Play Services provides an API for detecting barcodes, faces and text https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/a...

3. Chrome gets a shape detection API for detecting barcodes, faces and text https://web.dev/shape-detection/

Of course, it's a matter of perspective whether you want to see this as lovers of the free web helping webapps to feature parity with native apps; or Google churning out yet another low-effort standard that's easy for them and difficult for all their competitors.