Vision Text Overview - tuarua/Firebase-ANE GitHub Wiki
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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, or help organize photos. With the Cloud-based API, you can extract text from 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.
This is a beta release of ML Kit for Firebase. This API might be changed in backward-incompatible ways and is not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy.
| On-device | Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free | Free for first 1000 uses of this feature per month: see Pricing |
| Ideal use cases | 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 documents See the Cloud Vision API demo. |
| Language support | Recognizes Latin characters | Recognizes and identifies a broad range of languages and special characters |