Scanning text from an image file with the Capacitor OCR Module

Running OCR on arbitrary images

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

Perform OCR

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See full example on GitHub

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:

{
   "plainText":"Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation\nullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo\nconsequat\n",
   "pages":[
      {
         "text":"Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation\nullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo\nconsequat\n",
         "words":[
            {
               "boundingBox":{
                  "y":0.46182008368200839,
                  "x":0.011823899371069183,
                  "width":0.040000000000000001,
                  "height":0.070606694560669453
               },
               "text":"Ut",
               "confidence":96.546516418457031
            },
            {
               "boundingBox":{
                  "y":0.46443514644351463,
                  "x":0.064402515723270437,
                  "width":0.091320754716981131,
                  "height":0.06903765690376569
               },
               "text":"enim",
               "confidence":95.442947387695312
            },
            ...
            {
               "boundingBox":{
                  "y":0.68462343096234313,
                  "x":0.010817610062893081,
                  "width":0.22213836477987423,
                  "height":0.13702928870292888
               },
               "text":"consequat",
               "confidence":23.432151794433594
            }
         ],
         "lines":[
            {
               "boundingBox":{
                  "y":0.41684100418410042,
                  "x":0.011823899371069183,
                  "width":0.98037735849056606,
                  "height":0.14225941422594143
               },
               "text":"Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation\n",
               "confidence":95.124320983886719
            },
            {
               "boundingBox":{
                  "y":0.57112970711297073,
                  "x":0.011572327044025157,
                  "width":0.86792452830188682,
                  "height":0.1192468619246862
               },
               "text":"ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo\n",
               "confidence":95.142372131347656
            },
            {
               "boundingBox":{
                  "y":0.68462343096234313,
                  "x":0.010817610062893081,
                  "width":0.22213836477987423,
                  "height":0.13702928870292888
               },
               "text":"consequat\n",
               "confidence":23.432151794433594
            }
         ],
         "paragraphs":[
            {
               "boundingBox":{
                  "y":0.41684100418410042,
                  "x":0.011320754716981131,
                  "width":0.98088050314465414,
                  "height":0.34884937238493724
               },
               "text":"Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation\nullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo\nconsequat\n",
               "confidence":90.915626525878906
            }
         ]
      }
      ...
   ]
}

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