Text recognition with Unity without using Vuforia

Question

I have checked many posts about text recognition with Unity. But every post is suggesting Vuforia.

Also, Vuforia text recognition is deprecated.

According to Vuforia it only detects serif and sans-serif fonts.

I want my application to detect even handwritten text up to some extent.

So my question is 'is there any SDK or anything else which will help to detect handwritten text too?'.

Thanks in advance.

You can do so with OpenCV and the tesseract-ocr API. It requires you know C++ and make a plug-in with it. — PassetCronUs, Apr 26 '18 at 13:38
Thank you, @PassetCronUs for the suggestion. Right now I am not aware of C++. — Gyan Kumar Mishra, Apr 27 '18 at 05:52
No problem. And I think that's probably the only free way to do this. — PassetCronUs, Apr 28 '18 at 12:31

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 26 '18 at 10:08

2

If you're allowed to use network in your Unity application, you can integrate Google Cloud Vision which will do it all for you.

There's a project on GitHub called UnityCloudVision which should do the dirty work for you.

answered Apr 26 '18 at 10:08

Anders Emil

@zyonneo sure, you'd have to upload a screenshot or just the texture on the object to GCV, but yes – Anders Emil Jul 24 '19 at 12:13
but I want to use it using device camera.Please have a look at this.https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57181517/how-to-use-google-cloud-vision-along-with-unity-for-recognising-text-using-mobil – zyonneo Jul 24 '19 at 12:18
OK, then simply upload the captured texture to google cloud vision. There are plenty of samples around on how to capture texture from an input device – Anders Emil Jul 24 '19 at 12:29
Any examples? If I am using camera means it will be giving a video feed.So how does it help capturing the text . – zyonneo Jul 24 '19 at 12:45

1 Answers1