Machine Learning for Android Developers with the Mobile Vision API -- Part 3 -- Text Detection

Incase you missed it, here are the prequels to this article about the Mobile Vision API. The first post was on the Face Detection API while the second was on the Barcode Detection API. According to the overview, the Text Detection API allows for detecting text in images and videos and it breaks down those texts into blocks (paragraphs/columns), lines (sets of words on the same vertical axis) and words (set of alphanumeric characters on the same vertical axis). The API recognizes text in various Latin based languages. I'll write about what's possible with this API before I go ahead to explain how to use it .