Scanning text from an image file with the React Native 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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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:
{
"recognizedText": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur\nadipiscing elit. Cdopkx gbydo drsc dohd.",
"pages": [{
"_type": "Page",
"text": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur\nadipiscing elit. Cdopkx gbydo drsc dohd.",
"confidence": 0.9996336102485657,
"roi": [{"x": 88, "y": 80}, {"x": 1016, "y": 80}, {"x": 1016, "y": 208}, {"x": 88, "y": 208}],
"blocks": [{
"_type": "Block",
"text": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur\nadipiscing elit. Cdopkx gbydo drsc dohd.",
"confidence": 0.9996336102485657,
"roi": [{"x": 88, "y": 80}, {"x": 1016, "y": 80}, {"x": 1016, "y": 208}, {"x": 88, "y": 208}],
"lines": [{
"_type": "Line",
"text": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur",
"confidence": 0.9998694062232971,
"roi": [{"x": 88, "y": 80}, {"x": 1012, "y": 80}, {"x": 1012, "y": 124}, {"x": 88, "y": 124}],
"words": [{
"_type": "Word",
"text": "Lorem",
"confidence": 0.9999752044677734,
"roi": [{"x": 96.75828552246094, "y": 80}, {"x": 219.37440490722656, "y": 80}, {"x": 219.37440490722656, "y": 124}, {"x": 96.75828552246094, "y": 124}],
"glyphs": [{
"_type": "Glyph",
"text": "L",
"confidence": 0.9999958276748657,
"roi": [{"x": 96.75829315185547, "y": 80}, {"x": 114.2748794555664, "y": 80}, {"x": 114.2748794555664, "y": 124}, {"x": 96.75829315185547, "y": 124}]
}, {
"_type": "Glyph",
"text": "o",
"confidence": 0.9999903440475464,
"roi": [{"x": 109.89573669433594, "y": 80}, {"x": 140.5497589111328, "y": 80}, {"x": 140.5497589111328, "y": 124}, {"x": 109.89573669433594, "y": 124}]
}, {
"_type": "Glyph",
"text": "r",
"confidence": 0.99998939037323,
"roi": [{"x": 136.1706085205078, "y": 80}, {"x": 162.44549560546875, "y": 80}, {"x": 162.44549560546875, "y": 124}, {"x": 136.1706085205078, "y": 124}]
}, {
"_type": "Glyph",
"text": "e",
"confidence": 0.9999228715896606,
"roi": [{"x": 162.44549560546875, "y": 80}, {"x": 188.7203826904297, "y": 80}, {"x": 188.7203826904297, "y": 124}, {"x": 162.44549560546875, "y": 124}]
}, {
"_type": "Glyph",
"text": "m",
"confidence": 0.9999774694442749,
"roi": [{"x": 184.3412322998047, "y": 80}, {"x": 219.37440490722656, "y": 80}, {"x": 219.37440490722656, "y": 124}, {"x": 184.3412322998047, "y": 124}]
}]
},
{
"_type": "Word",
"text": "ipsum",
"confidence": 0.9993802309036255,
"roi": [{"x": 245.64927673339844, "y": 80}, {"x": 368.265380859375, "y": 80}, {"x": 368.265380859375, "y": 124}, {"x": 245.6492919921875, "y": 124}],
"glyphs": [{
"_type": "Glyph",
"text": "i",
"confidence": 0.9975591897964478,
"roi": [{"x": 245.6492919921875, "y": 80}, {"x": 258.7867431640625, "y": 80}, {"x": 258.7867431640625, "y": 124}, {"x": 245.6492919921875, "y": 124}]
}, {
"_type": "Glyph",
"text": "p",
"confidence": 0.9996521472930908,
"roi": [{"x": 258.7867431640625, "y": 80}, {"x": 280.6824645996094, "y": 80}, {"x": 280.6824645996094, "y": 124}, {"x": 258.7867431640625, "y": 124}]
}, {
"_type": "Glyph",
"text": "s",
"confidence": 0.9999656677246094,
"roi": [{"x": 280.6824645996094, "y": 80}, {"x": 306.95733642578125, "y": 80}, {"x": 306.95733642578125, "y": 124}, {"x": 280.6824645996094, "y": 124}]
}, {
"_type": "Glyph",
"text": "u",
"confidence": 0.9997465014457703,
"roi": [{"x": 306.95733642578125, "y": 80}, {"x": 333.23223876953125, "y": 80}, {"x": 333.23223876953125, "y": 124}, {"x": 306.95733642578125, "y": 124}]
}, {
"_type": "Glyph",
"text": "m",
"confidence": 0.9999798536300659,
"roi": [{"x": 333.23223876953125, "y": 80}, {"x": 368.2654113769531, "y": 80}, {"x": 368.2654113769531, "y": 124}, {"x": 333.23223876953125, "y": 124}]
}]
}]
// ...
}]
// ...
}]
}]
}
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