Question about using camera-to-text functionality

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Created Jun ’21

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Hi, I just saw the "Use the camera for keyboard input in your app" talk, and had a question about it's capability that wasn't covered. From what I could tell, you have to designate a particular UITextField / UITextView as the 'target' (or is it 'responder'?). If I want to parse different types of content (name, email, phone number) into different UITextFields, for e.g to fill out a form ... how would that work? I don't want the user to launch the camera 3 times, one for each text field. Or would it be best to dump the contents into a UITextView and then have it parse the contents and detect the content types?

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Jun ’21

Hi, multi-field input is not part of this year's release. We think it's a great idea though! So if you have a workaround, like parsing from an intermediate UITextView, then I encourage you to do that.

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