Vision Text Overview

The contents of this page are based on the original Firebase Documentation

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

Text recognition can automate tedious data entry for credit cards, receipts, and business cards, or help organize photos. With the Cloud-based API, you can extract text from documents, which you can use to increase accessibility or translate documents. Apps can even keep track of real-world objects, such as by reading the numbers on trains.

This is a beta release of ML Kit for Firebase. This API might be changed in backward-incompatible ways and is not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy.

Choose between on-device and Cloud APIs

	On-device	Cloud
Pricing	Free	Free for first 1000 uses of this feature per month: see Pricing
Ideal use cases	Real-time processing—ideal for a camera or video feed Recognizing sparse text in images	High-accuracy text recognition. Recognizing sparse text in images Recognizing densely-spaced text in documents See the Cloud Vision API demo.
Language support	Recognizes Latin characters	Recognizes and identifies a broad range of languages and special characters