Safari in iOS 8 uses camera to scan and enter credit card info [feedly]

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Safari in iOS 8 uses camera to scan and enter credit card info
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In iOS 8, Apple has a new feature in Safari that allows users to scan a credit card with the device's camera rather than manually entering the number when making a purchase online.

When entering a credit card number into a form online to, for example, make a purchase, Safari already allowed users to quickly select credit cards stored in its Passwords & AutoFill settings. You can still do that, but in iOS 8 you'll now also have the option to select "Scan Credit Card" and snap a picture of the card. Apple then uses optical character recognition of sorts to input the number into the text field in Safari.

Website developers don't have to do anything to enable the feature, as Safari appears to automatically detect when a credit card number is being requested and presents the option to scan above the keypad.

Safari received some other updates announced this week at WWDC too, including a redesign in OS X Yosemite on the Mac, and highly requested features on iOS like the ability to request a desktop site and a tab view for iPad.

Filed under: iOS Tagged: Apple, Camera, capture, Credit card, iOS, iOS 8, iPhone, OCR, Optical character recognition, payment, Safari, scan, scanning

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