How to extract text from image Android app

Question

I am working on a feature for my Android app. I would like to read text from a picture then save that text in a database. Is using OCR the best way? Is there another way? Google

Answer 1

From this Simple example of OCRReader in Android tutorial you can read text from image and also you can scan for text using camera, using very simple code.

This library is developed using Mobile Vision Text API

For scan text from camera

OCRCapture.Builder(this)
        .setUseFlash(true)
        .setAutoFocus(true)
        .buildWithRequestCode(CAMERA_SCAN_TEXT);

For extract text from image

String text = OCRCapture.Builder(this).getTextFromUri(pickedImage);
//You can also use getTextFromBitmap(Bitmap bitmap) or getTextFromImage(String imagePath) buplic APIs from OCRLibrary library.