simple_ocr_plugin 0.1.0

Plugin to perform OCR on image / photo, backed by Google ML-Kit.

simple OCR plugin

A compact OCR plugin for flutter apps. Available for both iOS and Android. Backed by Google's ML-Kit library.

usage

The following code snippet is all you need to perform OCR on an image / photo:

try {
   String _resultString = await SimpleOcrPlugin.performOCR(_pickedImageFile.path);
   print("OCR results => $_resultString");

} catch(e) {
   print("exception on OCR operation: ${e.toString()}");
}

gotchas

low quality results

In case low quality results were recognized; try to optimize the original photo in a couple of ways:

• resize the photo - if the source photo is too large, nothing senseful would be recognized, hence resize it to a smaller photo would be a trick.
• grayscaling the photo - there are cases when the image is very colorful and makes the recognition much more difficult, try grayscaling it.

PS. For more information on image guidelines, please refer to https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/vision/text-recognition/android#input-image-guidelines

running on Android

For the first time running the plugin, the corresponding Machine Learning models would be downloaded from Google Play Services. Hence make sure:

• the target phone should have Google Play Services app installed (which should be there by default).
• have enough storage space for the ML models - roughly a few 10Mbs.
• reachable to the internet for the downloads.

PS. Since download would take some time, corresponding UI screens should be shown to inform the users to wait for a reasonable moment.

ML-Kit version

The ML-Kit version involved is 0.63.0.