Does document scanning software work on both iOS and Android?

Yes, cross-platform support for both iOS and Android is standard among established document scanning vendors, since mobile-based scanning through a smartphone camera is one of the primary ways identity documents get scanned today, particularly for remote onboarding and self-service use cases.

Most vendors provide native SDKs for each platform, a Swift or Objective-C SDK for iOS, and a Java or Kotlin SDK for Android, rather than a single cross-platform wrapper, since native SDKs generally offer better camera performance and more reliable access to device-specific capabilities (like NFC hardware for chip reading) than cross-platform frameworks can consistently guarantee across every device model.

For businesses building apps using cross-platform frameworks like React Native or Flutter, many vendors also provide compatible wrappers or bridges that let a single codebase call into the native SDKs on each platform, avoiding the need to maintain entirely separate scanning implementations for iOS and Android within an otherwise shared codebase.

Beyond native mobile apps, many vendors also offer web-based (in-browser) scanning SDKs, which work across both platforms indirectly by running within a mobile browser rather than a native app, useful for businesses that want document scanning capability without requiring users to download a dedicated app first.

Feature parity between platforms is worth confirming with any specific vendor, since some capabilities (particularly around NFC chip reading, which depends on device-level hardware support) can have more consistent availability on one platform than the other, depending on how each operating system exposes that functionality to third-party developers.

ScanDoc provides SDKs for both iOS and Android, along with browser-based scanning options, giving businesses consistent document scanning capability regardless of which platform their users are on, and supports integration into cross-platform app frameworks for businesses that maintain a shared codebase across both operating systems.