text-recognition

@react-native-ml-kit/text-recognition

React Native On-Device Text Recognition w/ Google ML Kit

Getting started

npm install @react-native-ml-kit/text-recognition --save

Linking

React Native > 0.59

CLI autolink feature links the module while building the app.

React Native <= 0.59

react-native link @react-native-ml-kit/text-recognition

Installing Pods

On iOS, use CocoaPods to add the native RNMLKitTextRecognition to your project:

npx pod-install

Usage

import TextRecognition from '@react-native-ml-kit/text-recognition';

const result = await TextRecognition.recognize(imageURL);

console.log('Recognized text:', result.text);

for (let block of result.blocks) {
  console.log('Block text:', block.text);
  console.log('Block frame:', block.frame);

  for (let line of block.lines) {
    console.log('Line text:', line.text);
    console.log('Line frame:', line.frame);
  }
}

You can also recognize text in scripts other than Latin by specifying the needed script as below:

import TextRecognition, {
  TextRecognitionScript,
} from '@react-native-ml-kit/text-recognition';

const result = await TextRecognition.recognize(
  imageURL,
  // Script for Japanese, you can also use Chinese, Korean, Divanagari and of course Latin.
  TextRecognitionScript.JAPANESE
);