Android Java ML Kit for text detection

Question

I am trying to make this guid work https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/vision/text-recognition/android?hl=en

I implemented

  implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-mlkit-text-recognition:18.0.2'

and

  <meta-data
      android:name="com.google.mlkit.vision.DEPENDENCIES"
      android:value="ocr" />

as suggested.

However when I try to use the following code

TextRecognizer recognizer = TextRecognition.getClient(TextRecognizerOptions.DEFAULT_OPTIONS);

as per guide, it doesn't import the library and can't find it. I have synced the project with gradles so this should not be an issue.

I can cmd click on it and import the suggested library dependency

import com.google.mlkit.vision.text.TextRecognizer;

However it states that it cannot find "mlkit"The issue

How can I fix this?

I tried the guide by google