Vision Framework

Covers both the modern Swift-native Vision API (iOS 18+) with async/await and the legacy VNRequest pattern for backward compatibility. You get text recognition with language correction and custom vocabulary, face detection with landmarks, barcode scanning across a dozen symbologies, document scanning with structured layout understanding (paragraphs, tables, lists), plus object tracking for video. The modern API is cleaner,`try await request.perform(on: image)` instead of handler boilerplate,but you'll need the legacy patterns if you're supporting pre-iOS 18. Includes VisionKit's DataScannerViewController for live camera scanning and VNCoreMLRequest patterns for running custom Core ML models through Vision's pipeline.

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$ npx -y skills add dpearson2699/swift-ios-skills --skill vision-framework --agent claude-code

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Vision Framework

Detect text, faces, barcodes, objects, and body poses in images and video using on-device computer vision. Prefer the modern iOS 18+ request APIs and load the legacy reference only when the deployment target requires it.

See references/vision-requests.md for complete code patterns and references/visionkit-scanner.md for DataScannerViewController integration.