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Sample project demonstrating how OCR can be implemented using Google Vision library

Overview

This is a sample project demonstrating how OCR (optical character recognition) can be implemented using Google Vision library.
Apk file is available here.

Benefits:

  • requires no internet connection
  • very fast
  • out-of-the-box solution
  • super-easy to implement and requires less than 1h

Drawbacks:

  • understands English and digits only

Screenshot of the program:

screenshot

As you may see it recognizes written text easily.

Which digits it can recognize

So it recognizes without any problem the next numbers:

recognizable-01 recognizable-02 recognizable-03

And the next ones it cannot recognize: non-recognizable-01 non-recognizable-02 non-recognizable-03

Credits

Thanks to the author of this Youtube video lesson.