Text Recognition
With ML Kit's text recognition APIs, you can recognize text in any Latin-based language ( and more, with Cloud-based text recognition ).
Text recognition can automate tedious data entry for credit cards, receipts, and business cards. With the Cloud-based API, you can also extract text from pictures of documents, which you can use to increase accessibility or translate documents. Apps can even keep track of real-world objects, such as by reading the numbers on trains.
If you're a Flutter developer, you might be interested in FlutterFire , which includes a plugin for Firebase's ML Vision APIs.
Choose between on-device and Cloud APIs
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Pricing
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Free | Free for first 1000 uses of this feature per month: see Pricing |
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Ideal use cases
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Real-time processing—ideal for a camera or video feed Recognizing sparse text in images |
High-accuracy text recognition Recognizing sparse text in images Recognizing densely-spaced text in pictures of documents See the Cloud Vision API demo . |
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Language support
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Recognizes Latin characters | Recognizes and identifies a broad range of languages and special characters |
Example results
Sparse text
Wege
der parlamentarischen
Demokratie
Wege der parlamentarischen Demokratie
Wege der
Wege
Document text
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 361
Professor. He had evidently expected some such call, for
I found him dressed in his room. His door was ajar, so that
he could hear the opening of the door of our room. He
came at once; as he passed into the room, he asked Mina
if the others might come, too.
"No," she said quite simply, "it will not be necessary.
You can tell them just as well. I must go with you on your
journey."
Dr. Van Helsing was as startled as I was. After a mo-
ment's pause he asked:
"But why?"
...
(full text)
DR . SEWARD ' S DIARY 361 Professor . He had evidently expected some such call , for I found him dressed in his room . His door was ajar , so that he could hear the opening of the door of our room . He came at once ; as he passed into the room , he asked Mina if the others might come , too .
" No , " she said quite simply , " it will not be necessary . You can tell them just as well . I must go with you on your journey . "
Dr . Van Helsing was as startled as I was . After a mo ment ' s pause he asked :
...
(full text)
" No , " she said quite simply , " it will not be necessary . You can tell them just as well . I must go with you on your journey . "
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