Text recognition in Flutter in 2023 - create a OCR scanner app

Learn how to create a scanner app for text recognition in Flutter. I'll teach you the basics for building a text scanner, a PDF scanner, or a simple OCR scanner app to extract text.

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⏳ Timecodes:
00:00 - Introduction
00:22 - Setup
03:31 - Request camera permission
05:37 - Launch camera
11:01 - Scan image
13:18 - Conclusion

[huzaifak_]

OMG OMG OMG Thank to Allah. and also thanks to you. My project stucked from 2 years and now finally its done. Allhamdullillah

[ShiamBeeharry]

Thank you for the Video David. Tried it and worked like a charm.

[btdff]

Wow, very helpful for me. Thank you very much!!!

[JonathanMason-wh]

Thank you for sharing. I was hoping the current text recognition library in ML Kit could read bank checks, but unfortunately it doesn't recognize MICR E-13B & CMC-7.

[ilariascuotto]

what if i want to read only the import of a recepit ??

[MultiDesignWork]

Hello, how can I scan only one specific camera preview box?

[chinmi]

'backgroundColor: _isPermissionGranted ? Colors.transparent : null, '
I get a 'Null check operator used on a null value' error.
I compared the source but could not figure out the cause. Please let me know how I can help.

[Seyanhyriu]

Can I use OCR for non-letter, symbols or icons, or is there another tool for it?

[mohamedzidoun]

legend ! Allah bless you brother <3

[impulse]

Could you theoretically tie this with a screenshot on your phone instead of the camera app?

[dongsidangsi]

Iam stuck by adding the permissin_handler to pdfile, podfile isnt there, what can i do?

[Dragon]

I want to read the numbers only through full. I have a page that contains a button that I want, when pressed, to open the camera and read the numbers only and return the value to the same page

[FabiDashX]

How can I get it to show me a 3d AR model of the scanned word?

[anantnimbalkar]

can we extract only nedded text from it

[artutohernandezcontreras]

My App starts well but the camera don't initialize, the screen shows a black screen the permissions are seted weel do you have any idea, i ran it in motorola and huawei

[Ayubxon_]

is it take passport or id card information

[DevKumar-knwm]

Can we select text we want on clipboard?

[gatesbill]

google_ml_kit not support japan language right?

[thesuperaddman]

How can I use this use this for images already saved in gallery?

[felipetolentino]

I getting the 'Access denied finding property error, can you help me?