Introduction to Textify
Textify is a text recognition and transcription application .It recognizes English texts from images , which can either be taken directly using the camera application or can be loaded from your gallery.Textify also provides Speech-to-text transcription for English language using real time cloud transcription.
Textify is an android based application powered by the Huawei Mobile Services(HMS) core.Account kit and ML kit are the main services provided by HMS core that has been implemented in Textify.Account Kit provides simple, secure, and quick sign-in and authorization functions.Instead of entering accounts and passwords and waiting for authentication, users can just tap the Sign in with HUAWEI ID button to quickly and securely sign in to the app with their HUAWEI IDs.The text recognition service in ML kit can extract text from images of receipts, business cards, and documents.
Textify opens to the sign in page. App uses silent sign in by Huawei.After the user signs in the user will be greeted according to the time and username will be displayed on screen.Both the options for text recognition and transcription will be available where the user can make the choice.On selecting text recognition a menu will pop up where you can select how to select an image,either taken directly using the camera application or can be loaded from gallery.On device text recognition is used to get the text from the selected image.The text will be copied to a screen which can then be saved.Real time on cloud transcription is used for speech-to-text transcription.Network connectivity is necessary for the transcription to work.Users can record the speech and the text will be displayed on the screen which can be saved on to your device.
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Textify is available on Huawei App Gallery.For knowing more about Textify ,visit articles on Transcribe your speech using textify and OCR Using Textify App .
