FAQ

CraftAR offers two types of search modes in order to pass queries to the SDKs and search the image database:

Single Shot Mode search
Finder Mode search

Both search modes are supported in all our Image Recognition SDKs, plugins and libraries. Deciding which scan mode you would like to implement in your mobile or web app depends on your u

This article applies to both the Image Recognition SDK and the Augmented Reality SDK.

Our mobile SDKs have an option to send Cloud Image Recognition queries to your back-end instead of sending them to directly to CraftAR. This is useful for implementing some custom application logics on your server. Of course, you also need to forward them via

Receiving the metadata associated with the recognized items is optional. A specific metadata field (e.g. custom data) can be included using a corresponding parameter in the recognition requests.

Visit our documentation on how to do it with our Image Recognition API or our mobile SDKs.

Cloud image recognition works by leveraging a server in the cloud that takes on all the heavy duty processing. First, a user takes a picture with their smartphone and this picture is sent to the server. Second, the server compares that picture with the corresponding database of images. And finally, the server responds to the app with the content (U

We provide easy to use mobile SDKs for iOS and Android. Also, we have Phonegap and Cordova Plugins available. If you’re developing in Unity, we also have an SDK that you can plug into the Unity3D environment.

In this section of our site we show what features and SDKs are supported by the different devices and operating systems.

If you are develop

CraftAR is the Ultimate Augmented Reality toolbox. Our toolbox provides easy tools that help build Image Recognition and Augmented Reality branded app. Developers and agencies can build apps for a number of industries including retail, advertising, publishing and gaming.

For more information, we suggest visiting the product page of CraftAR or the

The CraftAR toolbox has several features, including enabling Cloud-based and On-device (offline) Image Recognition and Augmented Reality capabilities for your branded applications.

Please visit the CraftAR Pricing page for more information.

Since xCode 6.3, sceneKit compiles the collada (.dae) 3D model files a sceneKit optimized format. This format is not compatible with the importer used by the CraftAR Augmented Reality SDK and will produce the following error when trying to load the model:
[ error ] ofxAssimpModelLoader: loadModel(): Collada: File came out empty.
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