@devinikhiya/react-native-tesseractocr

🧠 This package leverages the power of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology, making it a breeze to extract text from images in your React Native apps.

it Uses - Tesseract4Android for android. Tesseract-OCR-iOS for ios (not implemented yet !)

📋 Key Features: You can
💫 recognize text from remote image(url) 🕸️
💫 recognize text with Camera 📷
💫 recognize text from gallery 📱

also support multi-language recognization.

For multi-language Just Use '@' between two languages Examples - for Hindi and english - 'hin@eng'

Installation

npm install @devinikhiya/react-native-tesseractocr

Usage

import TesseractOcr, { useEventListener } from '@devinikhiya/react-native-tesseractocr';

// ...

  try {
      const recognizedText = await TesseractOcr.recognize(
        path,
        'eng',
        {},
      );
      console.log('text is', recognizedText);
    } catch (error) {
      console.log('error is', error);
    }

  //progess listener for tesseractocr JOB
  useEventListener('onProgressChange', (p) => {
    setprogress(p.percent / 100);
  });

TessData

Strict requirement on language files existing in a referenced "tessdata" folder. For Android

Save TessData Files into - android/app/src/main/assets/tessdata

exaample - for the language english - android/app/src/main/assets/tessdata/eng.traineddata

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT