NeoMedia Technologies, Inc (NEOM)

[srowen]

I'll make myself useful and answer this part. The iPhone doesn't really provide a way to capture from the camera's video feed directly. Instead, what you can do, is trigger a photo capture API. When you do the iPhone takes over and you see this screen where you are prompted to line up, capture, and save, before returning to the app. So the reason it looks the same is that this screen is part of the iPhone OS and about the only way to do it. (It's how we did it too -- same screen.) I think that may be changing soon, or else, people have found ways around it -- look at Optiscan. They claim to have enabled a continuous-scan mode which would mean going around this API somehow.