App Store rejection due to .ir domain in MLKit OCR framework

[Aethey]

Our app uses card_scanner: ^1.0.2, and was rejected by App Store review due to a metadata/legal issue with the following message:

"...app includes the following link/s in the binary: https://nic.ir.md/..."

• The card_scanner plugin depends on MLKit TextRecognition which seems to introduce this framework.
• This .ir domain reference may cause unexpected App Store rejections with minimal traceability.

$ grep -rni 'nic.ir.md' .

Binary file ./ios/Pods/MLKitTextRecognitionCommon/Frameworks/MLKitTextRecognitionCommon.framework/MLKitTextRecognitionCommon matches
Binary file ./build/ios/iphoneos/Runner.app/Runner matches
Binary file ./build/ios/Debug-iphonesimulator/Runner.app/Runner.debug.dylib matches
Binary file ./build/ios/Release-iphoneos/Runner.app/Runner matches
Binary file ./build/ios/Debug-iphoneos/Runner.app/Runner.debug.dylib matches
Binary file ./build/ios/iphonesimulator/Runner.app/Runner.debug.dylib matches

I confirmed this by running grep -rni 'nic.ir.md' . on the built app directory.
The domain reference is present in MLKitTextRecognitionCommon.framework, which appears to be included via card_scanner.

Just sharing this to help others avoid the same unexpected rejection. Appreciate your great work maintaining this package 🙏

[HassanTaleb90]

I'm experiencing the same issue, so I’ve created a new report on the Google Issue Tracker:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/411157364

I’ve also linked it on GitHub for visibility:
googlesamples/mlkit#939

[Niko-by]

Temporary solution. Added this package to pubsec.yaml

google_ml_kit: ^0.20.0

After that you may have to update:
pod update
or
pod update GoogleMLKit/TextRecognition

[avetikSukiasyan]

I added this to the Podfile. It found and removed nic.ir.md. It worked as expected, and Apple accepted the project.

 # 🚫 Patch MLKit binary to remove problematic domain
 Dir.glob("Pods/MLKitTextRecognitionCommon/Frameworks/MLKitTextRecognitionCommon.framework/MLKitTextRecognitionCommon") do |binary|
   puts "🔧 Patching MLKitTextRecognitionCommon to remove nic.ir.md..."
   system("LC_CTYPE=C sed -i '' 's/nic.ir.md/         /g' #{binary}")
 end
end