Text Recognitionplat_iosplat_android

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. With the Cloud-based API, you can also 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.

iOS Android

Choose between on-device and Cloud APIs

	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

Example results

Sparse text

Photo: Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / "Düsseldorf, Wege der parlamentarischen Demokratie -- 2015 -- 8123" / CC BY-SA 4.0

Recognized Text
Text	`Wege der parlamentarischen Demokratie`
Blocks	(1 block)

Block 0
Text	`Wege der parlamentarischen Demokratie`
Frame	(117.0, 258.0, 190.0, 83.0)
Corner Points	(117, 270), (301.64, 258.49), (306.05, 329.36), (121.41, 340.86)
Recognized Language Code	de
Lines	(3 lines)

Line 0
Text	`Wege der`
Frame	(167.0, 261.0, 91.0, 28.0)
Corner Points	(167, 267), (255.82, 261.46), (257.19, 283.42), (168.36, 288.95)
Recognized Language Code	de
Elements	(2 elements)

Element 0
Text	`Wege`
Frame	(167.0, 263.0, 59.0, 26.0)
Corner Points	(167, 267), (223.88, 263.45), (225.25, 285.41), (168.36, 288.95)

Document text

Recognized Text

Text

Recognized Text
Text	`DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 361 Professor. He had evidently expected some such call, for I found him dressed in his room. His door was ajar, so that he could hear the opening of the door of our room. He came at once; as he passed into the room, he asked Mina if the others might come, too. "No," she said quite simply, "it will not be necessary. You can tell them just as well. I must go with you on your journey." Dr. Van Helsing was as startled as I was. After a mo- ment's pause he asked: "But why?"` ... (full text)
Blocks	(1 block)

DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 361

Professor. He had evidently expected some such call, for

I found him dressed in his room. His door was ajar, so that

he could hear the opening of the door of our room. He

came at once; as he passed into the room, he asked Mina

if the others might come, too.

"No," she said quite simply, "it will not be necessary.

You can tell them just as well. I must go with you on your

journey."

Dr. Van Helsing was as startled as I was. After a mo-

ment's pause he asked:

"But why?"

...

(full text)

Blocks (1 block)

Block 0
Text	`DR . SEWARD ' S DIARY 361 Professor . He had evidently expected some such call , for I found him dressed in his room . His door was ajar , so that he could hear the opening of the door of our room . He came at once ; as he passed into the room , he asked Mina if the others might come , too .` `" No , " she said quite simply , " it will not be necessary . You can tell them just as well . I must go with you on your journey . "` `Dr . Van Helsing was as startled as I was . After a mo ment ' s pause he asked :` ... (full text)
Confidence	0.98
Frame	(25.0, 21.0, 359.0, 583.0)
Recognized Language Code	en
Paragraphs	(10 paragraphs)

Paragraph 1
Text	`" No , " she said quite simply , " it will not be necessary . You can tell them just as well . I must go with you on your journey . "`
Confidence	0.98
Frame	(29.0, 110.0, 355.0, 44.0)
Recognized Language Code	en
Words	(34 words)

Word 7
Text	`simply`
Confidence	0.99
Frame	(179.0, 110.0, 37.0, 15.0)
Recognized Language Code	en
Symbols	(6 symbols)

Symbol 0
Text	`s`
Confidence	1.00
Frame	(179.0, 110.0, 3.0, 15.0)
Recognized Language Code	en