Perspective App needs to be monitoring the camera continuously for barcode activity - how?

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We have built a Perspective app, deployed on iPads, that ... when user clicks "Scan New Barcode" ... will show the iPad camera so the operator can find the barcode and capture it.

We'd like to modify this so that whenever a barcode is present in the camera field of view, the iPad will capture it and notify the Perspective app that a new string is available. Best possible implementation of this would be to show the live iPad camera "feed" in a window as part of the app, so that the operator can make sure that the camera is picking up the new barcade and can capture it.

I am not sure how to keep the camera on:
I am not sure how to do a live feed in a small window from the local tablet's camera

Any ideas?

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I don't believe this is a possible as part of the Perspective Barcode scanner component.
There are ways to achieve this in normal web dev, but it will take some significant work to make these perspective friendly.

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To add to this, an iPad is unsuitable for this task as it is not designed for continuous camera use.
The iPad will overheat an shut down if this was run continuously for more than a couple of minutes. This is common for most phones and tablets, and the battery will not last long at all.

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