Android Studio: Text Detector using Mobile Vision

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.

Step 2: Open the Android.Manifest.xml and add the permissions in accessing the Camera, Phone Storage and Internet.

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.

Step 4:** CODING**
Snippet to an Intent to access CAMERA (Available in Kitkat up to Nougat)

Snippet to set-up TEXT RECOGNITION (Available in Kitkat up to Nougat)

Snippet to store the scanned images in a TEXT FILE (Available in Kitkat up to Nougat)

Step 5: Merge everything in the Activity Result

Note: Add also all the permissions.
Code is available in Versions KitKat up to Nougat.

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