Android Studio: Text Detector using Mobile Vision

in #utopian-io7 years ago (edited)

This is a simple project from Android Studio that detects texts using Mobile Vision in an image after capturing with a special feature of cropping the image and encode it through a .txt File Extension in your phone.

What you'll learn?
Initializing the Mobile Vision TextRecognizer
Applying the cropping function in a program
Creating a file that was scanned

What you'll need
Android Studio version 3.0
Android phone (Testing) or Phone Emulator

Difficulty
Basic

Tutorial Contents

Step 1: Open the build.gradle file in the app and add the following dependecies and sync.
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Step 2: Open the Android.Manifest.xml and add the permissions in accessing the Camera, Phone Storage and Internet.
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Step 3: Set up your UI with buttons CROP for cropping the images, SCAN to scan the images and produces texts, and Create to create the .txt file of the scanned images.
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Step 4:** CODING**
Snippet to an Intent to access CAMERA (Available in Kitkat up to Nougat)
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Snippet to set-up TEXT RECOGNITION (Available in Kitkat up to Nougat)
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Snippet to store the scanned images in a TEXT FILE (Available in Kitkat up to Nougat)
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Step 5: Merge everything in the Activity Result
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Note: Add also all the permissions.
Code is available in Versions KitKat up to Nougat.



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