Extract Text from Images and Pictures with OCR in .NET MAUI

In this video we will see how you can easily implement text recognition (OCR) in your .NET MAUI app. You can extract text from both an image on your filesystem, as well as a picture you take with your camera and get all kinds of metadata, crazy! Check it out!

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⏱ Timestamps
00:00 - Easy OCR Text Recognition in .NET MAUI
01:00 - Plugin.Maui.OCR Repository (STAR IT!)
02:55 - Add Plugin.Maui.OCR to Sample Project
03:27 - Android Not Building?!
06:17 - Extract Text from Image
13:34 - Live Demo on Windows
14:41 - Implement OCR for Taking a Picture
18:00 - Learn About Pattern Matching?

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[ethanp]

I've been trying to use tesseract for OCR and have had no luck with it then this popped up in my feed, absolute life saver thanks Gerald! I'd love to see a pattern matching video as well.

[scabrerap]

Gerald - the authority on MAUI - Versluis! Thanks again for your very detailed videos. I'm implementing a receipt reader and this was pretty amazing and easy to use. I'm now seeing the pattern match, but with these videos of yours no one can be lost on MAUI.

[ejdut]

Yes, would like a video on pattern matching. All your videos are great!

[DeepWorksStudios]

Awesome Tool !
Thanks for presenting it us Gerald! Love your content <3

[CliffShivkar]

Great Video. Thanks! Please do the Cancellation Token video in detail. 🙏
Another thing I would like to ask. Please don't mind... When y'all suggest a plugin/program, is all necessary care taken to ensure that it follows strict rules of programming and privacy?

[richarddufour]

Just what I needed. Thanks (again) Gerald

[NataliaEriksson]

Very funny OCR result 🎉 Subscribed already!

[SKIDDOW]

Congratulations for 5yr anniversary! ❤

[cocacola]

How about continuously detecting object shapes, for example, with mobile camera? Is it easy with Maui?

[CarrigansGuitarClub]

That is really very very good....so simple to use and setup - excellent

[cenkyenikoylu]

Thank you for video. Can I create an AI custom model on the device that can read receipts? I made a demo with Azure Document Intelligence, but the usage prices are too expensive for a startup project.

[emrahcaglar]

Thank you for amazing video but how can i read other language.it is not read Turkish char like "Ç", "Ş"...

[radoslav]

I would like to see a video about extracting Customer IDs from a desktop or browser based Admin screen or Healt card number (like var ohipPattern = new OcrPatternConfig(@"\d{10}", IsLuhnValid); mentiond in Readme). I have a need to identify notes on device kept for a patient based on EMR System where Patient screen is opened and I would like to just point to the header in the Patient screen to descover Offline notes I take on Devices and locate them upon finishing OCR pattern for OHIP card number. And I would like the phone to automatically take a photo as needed to capture and recognize the pattern (when image is clear enought). That would be great.

[rahul_salokhe]

Hello, is it possible to create Optical mark recognition (OMR). To get Mark from the OMR sheet? Or do you know any plugin from OMR sheet

[comerpalon]

Thanks for all your very useful tutorials! But there is nothing on MIDI 😦 Why. Can I hope for a tutorial on this topic? Thanks

[sornt]

I love this, Can I implement this library with Blazor app?

[mahmoud]

Great stuff 😍 when it will support RTL languages?

[earthlingthings]

How to extend functionality for other languages? Say, Hindi?