OCR Using Textify App
Textify is an app that has mainly two functionalities.
- Speech to Text.
- Optical character recognition.
The app is now available on the Huawei App Gallery for free download. It uses the HMS ML Kit to implement the functionality. When you first use Textify you are greeted with a login screen that allows you to log in with your Huawei id.
After logging in the user can see the main window with two options of which this article will be discussing the OCR capabilities.
The app also recognizes the time and greets you with the welcome message according to the current time which is a handy feature.
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If the user needs to extract a piece of information from an image you can avail the OCR feature of our application. The image can be already saved image or a photo that is taken on the go. To avail of the feature, the user needs to click on the camera icon. After that, the user is greeted with a window with two options one being to recognize a text from gallery or to take an image using the camera. Also, you need an active internet connection for this.
In both these cases, the user will have to give some care to make sure that the text is properly visible on the picture that is being given as the input to the application, Textify will provide you with instant results on a window displayed below and the user can choose to save it as a document on their device. Textify is intended for users who have a habit of keeping notes while they travel around and Textify can help by making instant documents and saving them.
The above-shown image which shows the back side of a common notebook is given input to the application. Textify almost instantly gave an output by recognizing the text as shown below.
As you can see this demonstrates the use case of our app where we can even take a photo of a quote in public places or a long message that the user wants to remember he can just take a photo and save it as a file to read it later or to use it for some of his/her work.
Overall we can say that the OCR feature of Textify is a quite useful feature that helps the user to take pictures and store the information for reading or it can be simply used as an OCR tool to recognize and extract information from an image.
The app also supports many common image formats like JPEG, PNG, SVG etc
You can learn about the speech recognition feature here.
Textify is available on HMS App Gallery.
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