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Scanning text from an image file with the Android OCR Module

Running OCR on arbitrary images​

You can run OCR on arbitrary image files (JPG or PNG) provided as file URIs:

Run OCR from images
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Running OCR on a 'Document' object​

You can use the corresponding methods to pass a Document object to the OCR engine:

Run OCR from Document
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The OcrEngineManager uses the document image (cropped image) of Page objects. Thus, make sure all Page objects contain document images.

OCR results​

The OCR result contains the recognized plain text as well as the bounding boxes and text results of recognized blocks (paragraphs), lines and words:

OCR Result Handling
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