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Top Flutter Document Scanner packages
Last updated: May 18, 2026
Document scanners turn a smartphone camera into a portable scanner, allowing users to digitize receipts, forms, and IDs directly within your Flutter app.
Best Practices for Document Scanning
- Edge Detection: The best document scanning UX automatically detects the edges of a paper against a contrasting background. Utilize packages that offer real-time edge detection overlays.
- Manual Adjustments: Auto-cropping isn't perfect. Always allow the user to manually adjust the four corners of the detected document before finalizing the crop.
- Filters and Enhancements: Raw photos of documents often suffer from shadows and poor lighting. Apply thresholding or black-and-white filters to enhance text contrast, which is especially important if the image will be passed to an OCR engine later.
The complete list of Document Scanner, Paper Scanner, and Cam Scanner packages is provided below.
google_ml_kit
👍 1.2K ⬇️ 5.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter plugin to use all APIs from Google's standalone ML Kit for mobile platforms.
edge_detection
👍 310 ⬇️ 1.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A flutter plugin to detect edges of objects, scan paper, detect corner, detect rectangle. It allows cropping of the detected object image and returns the path of the cropped image.
cunning_document_scanner
👍 256 ⬇️ 30.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A document scanner plugin for flutter. Scan and crop automatically on iOS and Android.
flutter_tesseract_ocr
👍 212 ⬇️ 3.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Tesseract 4 adds a new neural net (LSTM) based OCR engine which is focused on line recognition. It has unicode (UTF-8) support, and can recognize more than 100 languages.
flutter_doc_scanner
👍 156 ⬇️ 17.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter plugin for document scanning on Android and iOS using ML Kit Document Scanner API and VisionKit.
document_scanner_flutter
👍 157 ⬇️ 620
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A android & ios document scanner & auto detector plugin for flutter.
google_ml_vision
👍 135 ⬇️ 118
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Flutter plugin for Google ML Kit on-device vision apis. It includes barcode scanning, image labeling, text recognition and face detection.
flutter_document_scanner
👍 134 ⬇️ 394
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter plugin that allows the management of taking, cropping and applying filters to an image, using the camera plugin
flutter_scalable_ocr
👍 131 ⬇️ 553
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Flutter scalable OCR package is a wrapper around google_mlkit_text_recognition where you can partialy select part of camera which text will be processed of.
flutter_camera_ml_vision
👍 106 ⬇️ 124
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A flutter widget that show the camera stream and allow ML vision recognition on it, it allow you to detect barcodes, labels, text, faces...
flutter_genius_scan
👍 94 ⬇️ 10.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter plugin for the Genius Scan SDK for iOS and Android. It allows scanning paper documents using a smartphone camera.
scanbot_sdk
👍 92 ⬇️ 5.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter plugin of the Scanbot Scanner SDK for Android and iOS. Provides functionality like Document Scanning, QR and Barcode Scanning, PDF Creation, TIFF, OCR, etc.
document_scanner
👍 84 ⬇️ 97
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A plugin that creates a native platform view that scans documents, as a flutter widget.
google_mlkit_document_scanner
👍 66 ⬇️ 7.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter plugin to use the ML Kit document scanner API to easily add a document scanner feature to your app.
flutter_document_reader_api
👍 37 ⬇️ 22.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
This is a flutter module for Regula document reader. It allows you to easily scan documents, for example passport, using your phone's camera. Supports Android and iOS.
document_camera_frame
👍 51 ⬇️ 519
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter package for capturing and cropping document images with a customizable camera interface.
scanning_effect
👍 42 ⬇️ 563
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Scanning effect for wrapping around a camera view with customizable borders using CustomPainter.
learning_text_recognition
👍 37 ⬇️ 26
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
The easy way to use ML Kit for text recognition in Flutter.
docutain_sdk
👍 20 ⬇️ 106
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter plugin of the Docutain Document Scanner SDK for Android & iOS. High quality document scanning, data extraction, text recognition and PDF creation. Easily scan documents.
quickcapture
👍 16 ⬇️ 113
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
QuickCapture - Ai Based Mobile Document Scanning,compression & imaging plugin for Flutter From Extrieve.
mrz_scanner
👍 14 ⬇️ 7
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A package that allows you to Scan any kind of documents that have any mrz format
scanner_document
👍 7 ⬇️ 93
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A document scanner plugin for Flutter. Scan and crop documents automatically on iOS and Android with ML Kit support.