Building a mobile app with document scanning capabilities used to mean choosing between two frustrating options: spend months wrestling with camera APIs, edge detection, and machine learning models, or accept a one-size-fits-all UI that doesn’t match your brand.
Not anymore.
What is Veryfi Lens Headless?
Veryfi Lens Headless gives you the best of both worlds—complete control over your app’s user interface while leveraging enterprise-grade document capture AI that just works.
Think of it as document scanning without the constraints. You design the camera experience that fits your brand and workflow. We handle everything that happens behind the scenes: detecting documents against any background (yes, even white receipts on white tables), auto-capturing with perfect timing, smart cropping, fraud detection, and preparing images for optimal data extraction.
Why Go Headless?
Total Design Freedom
Your app has a unique personality and your users have specific needs. Maybe you’re building a minimalist expense app that needs clean, simple controls. Or perhaps you’re creating an enterprise solution that requires custom workflows and branding guidelines. With Headless, you’re not locked into our pre-built UI—you create exactly what your users need.
The AI You Need, Without the Hassle
While you focus on the interface, Veryfi Lens Headless is working hard under the hood:
- Smart document detection that distinguishes receipts from cats (seriously—our AI knows the difference)
- Lightning-fast capture that grabs up to 4 documents simultaneously
- Automatic quality checks for blur, lighting, and document integrity
- Fraud detection with 99.7% accuracy across 47+ fraud indicators
- Long receipt stitching that handles even those notorious CVS receipts
- Offline processing so your users never miss a capture moment
All of this runs on-device with advanced machine learning models optimized for modern mobile hardware, including Neural Engine processing on iOS and dedicated AI chips on Android.
Privacy by Design
In today’s world, privacy isn’t optional. Veryfi Lens Headless processes documents entirely on the device using on-device AI, with enrichment from cloud APIs only when needed for optimal accuracy. No sensitive financial data leaves the phone during initial capture and processing—giving you enterprise-grade scanning with military-grade privacy protection.
How It Works
Integration is refreshingly simple. Here’s what you need to get started:
1. Initialize with Your Credentials
Note VeryfiLensHeadlessCredentials object being used here.
// iOS Example
let veryfiLensCredentials = VeryfiLensHeadlessCredentials(
clientId: CLIENT_ID,
username: AUTH_USERNAME,
apiKey: AUTH_APIKEY,
url: URL
)
2. Configure Your Settings
let veryfiLensSettings = VeryfiLensSettings() veryfiLensSettings.autoCaptureIsOn = true veryfiLensSettings.autoRotateIsOn = true veryfiLensSettings.documentTypes = ['receipt']
3. Build Your Custom UI
This is where you shine. Create the camera interface that perfectly matches your app’s design language and user flow. You control the buttons, animations, feedback, and navigation.
4. Let Veryfi Handle the Rest
Behind your beautiful UI, Veryfi Lens Headless is:
- Processing frames in real-time
- Detecting document edges with precision
- Assessing image quality
- Triggering auto-capture at the perfect moment
- Running fraud checks
- Preparing optimized images for data extraction
Real-World Benefits
73% of mobile receipt captures fail with basic implementations due to blurry images, missed edges, and poor lighting handling. Users abandon apps that don’t work reliably.
With Veryfi Lens Headless, you skip months of debugging and ship a proven solution that delivers:
- 98% capture success rates even in challenging lighting conditions
- 4x faster capture speed compared to traditional implementations
- 95% reduction in fraud with intelligent document analysis
- Works offline so users can capture anywhere, anytime
Perfect For
Fintech and banking apps that need branded expense tracking while maintaining strict security compliance
Enterprise software requiring custom workflows and white-label solutions
Startups that want to move fast without sacrificing quality or user experience
Any app where document capture is a feature, not the entire product
Get Started Today
Veryfi Lens Headless is available for iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Capacitor, and .NET MAUI. We’ve built comprehensive documentation, demo projects, and code examples to get you up and running in minutes—not months.
Check out our implementation examples:
or go to the app store and download Veryfi Lens to test drive the camera app for free.
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Ready to take control of your document capture experience? Visit veryfi.com/lens to learn more or contact our sales team at [email protected].
The Bottom Line: Stop compromising between great UX and powerful AI. With Veryfi Lens Headless, you get both—your design vision powered by document intelligence that actually works.