Scandit

Scandit is the smart data capture company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Its vision-AI Smart Data Capture platform turns smartphones, handheld computers, wearables, drones and fixed cameras into high-performance scanners that read barcodes, text, IDs and objects with unmatched speed and accuracy. Scandit is delivered to developers as a first-party Data Capture SDK across iOS, Android, Web, React Native, Flutter, Cordova, Capacitor and .NET/MAUI, plus hosted products like ID Bolt for drop-in website ID scanning. Products include SparkScan, Barcode Capture, MatrixScan (AR/Count/Batch), Smart Label Capture and ID Capture. Authentication is a per-application license key, and recognition runs on-device at the edge. Customers include Walmart, Instacart, Levi Strauss & Co., Sephora, Lufthansa and FedEx.

Scandit is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Frontier Tech, Data Capture, Barcode Scanning, and Computer Vision.

Scandit’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, support, and 16 more developer resources.

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27.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 6/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 98/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 APIs 2 Agent Skills

Company Frontier TechData CaptureBarcode ScanningComputer Vision SDK ID Verification Retail Logistics Mobile

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 27.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.1 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 6/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 27.6 — up to +14.5 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 2.6 — up to +12.7 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages)	distribution	28.7	1	1
Biometrics Testing (biometric recognition vendors, identity verification depth)	distribution	28.7	1	1
ONVIF Video Analytics (video surveillance, edge cameras, computer vision)	distribution	28.7	1	1
Mobile SDK Publishers (Play SDK Index, CocoaPods, ADA certification)	distribution	28.7	1	1
Official SDKs on Packagist, pub.dev and Hex	distribution	28.7	1	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Scandit Data Capture SDK

On-device Smart Data Capture SDK for barcode, MatrixScan, ID, Smart Label, Parser and Text capture, shipped as first-party client libraries for iOS, Android, Web, React Native, ...

Scandit ID Bolt

Cloud-hosted, drop-in identity-document scanning pop-up for websites with built-in phone handover, loaded via the @scandit/web-id-bolt package.

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

data-capture-sdk

AGENT SKILL

id-bolt

AGENT SKILL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Scandit Authentication

licenseKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Scandit Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conventions

Conventions

Components

Components

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: scandit
name: Scandit
description: Scandit is the smart data capture company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Its vision-AI
  Smart Data Capture platform turns smartphones, handheld computers, wearables, drones and fixed cameras into high-performance
  scanners that read barcodes, text, IDs and objects with unmatched speed and accuracy. Scandit is delivered to developers
  as a first-party Data Capture SDK across iOS, Android, Web, React Native, Flutter, Cordova, Capacitor and .NET/MAUI, plus
  hosted products like ID Bolt for drop-in website ID scanning. Products include SparkScan, Barcode Capture, MatrixScan (AR/Count/Batch),
  Smart Label Capture and ID Capture. Authentication is a per-application license key, and recognition runs on-device at the
  edge. Customers include Walmart, Instacart, Levi Strauss & Co., Sephora, Lufthansa and FedEx.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.scandit.com/wp-content/themes/scandit/assets/images/logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scandit/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
x-docs-hosting: aws-cloudfront
tags:
- Company
- Frontier Tech
- Data Capture
- Barcode Scanning
- Computer Vision
- SDK
- ID Verification
- Retail
- Logistics
- Mobile
tags_raw:
- Company
- Frontier Tech
- Data Capture
- Barcode Scanning
- Computer Vision
- SDK
- ID Verification
- Retail
- Logistics
- Mobile
- Computer-Vision
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Scandit Data Capture SDK
  description: On-device Smart Data Capture SDK for barcode, MatrixScan, ID, Smart Label, Parser and Text capture, shipped
    as first-party client libraries for iOS, Android, Web, React Native, Flutter, Cordova, Capacitor and .NET/MAUI.
  humanURL: https://docs.scandit.com/
  baseURL: https://docs.scandit.com
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.scandit.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.scandit.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/scandit-authentication.yml
  - type: Packages
    url: packages/scandit-packages.yml
  - type: SDKs
    url: packages/scandit-packages.yml
- name: Scandit ID Bolt
  description: Cloud-hosted, drop-in identity-document scanning pop-up for websites with built-in phone handover, loaded via
    the @scandit/web-id-bolt package.
  humanURL: https://docs.scandit.com/docs/hosted/id-bolt/overview
  baseURL: https://docs.scandit.com
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.scandit.com/docs/hosted/id-bolt/overview
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://docs.scandit.com/docs/hosted/id-bolt/release-notes
common:
- url: https://www.scandit.com/blog-en.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
  url: https://www.scandit.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.scandit.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.scandit.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.scandit.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.scandit.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.scandit.com/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://ssl.scandit.com/dashboard/sign-up
- type: Login
  url: https://ssl.scandit.com/dashboard/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.scandit.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.scandit.com/hc/en-us
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Scandit
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.scandit.com/privacy/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/scandit-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/scandit-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/scandit-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/scandit-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/scandit-domain-security.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/scandit-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/scandit-changelog.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/scandit-conventions.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/scandit-components.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 12
  pass: local-v1

Scandit API — frequently asked questions

Does Scandit have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Scandit, including Scandit Data Capture SDK and Scandit ID Bolt.

How do I authenticate with the Scandit API?

Scandit uses bearer-token authentication (licenseKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Scandit Authentication.

Is the Scandit API ready for AI agents?

Scandit has a Kin Score of 27.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 6.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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