react-native-ml-kit-ocr

React Native wrapper for OCR functionality of https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/

Limitations

As of the moment, this only supports Android.

Getting started

$ npm install git+https://github.com/xtrycatchx/react-native-mlkit-ocr.git --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-ml-kit-ocr

Manual installation

iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-ml-kit-ocr and add RNMlKitOcr.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNMlKitOcr.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

• Add import com.reactlibrary.RNMlKitOcrPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNMlKitOcrPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-ml-kit-ocr'
   project(':react-native-ml-kit-ocr').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-ml-kit-ocr/android')
   

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     compile project(':react-native-ml-kit-ocr')
   

Usage

import RNMlKitOcr from 'react-native-ml-kit-ocr';

const pathOfImage = `the_path_of_your_image_to_extract`

RNMlKitOcr.detect(pathOfImage).then(result => {
	// do something with the data
	console.log(JSON.parse(result))
})