Detect text in hindi using mlKit

Question

I am creating an app which takes the picture and recognize the text from it and provides it as the output. I am using mlkit from the firebase for this purpose. So far I am able to detect the text in English. Now I want it to detect the text in Hindi. Also, I am using on-device detection for detecting the text.

Can anyone guide me with this hurdle?

Any help will be appreciated.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 08 '20 at 13:42

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The Firebase overview of the text recognition API starts with this:

With ML Kit's text recognition APIs, you can recognize text in any Latin-based language (and more, with Cloud-based text recognition).

Since Hindi uses non Latin-based characters, it can't be recognized by ML Kit's on-device API. The Cloud-based API that is linked does support many more character sets, including Hindi.

So you'll either have to use the Cloud-based API, or train your own model to recognize Hindi text.

answered May 08 '20 at 13:42

Frank van Puffelen

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thanks for the answer. I came across the same thing but i was wondering if it can be done ondevice. – divaPrajapati09 May 12 '20 at 12:01
It *can* probably be done on the device, but you'd have to find or train another model for that. The model built into ML Kit only handles Latin-based languages. – Frank van Puffelen May 12 '20 at 13:08

Detect text in hindi using mlKit

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