Open awebre opened 3 years ago
On iOS this is pretty much handled already thanks to the "enableLiveTextInteractions" option of the Expo Image component. That honestly makes it a little more difficult to justify the cost of running a service specifically for this. I think I'm going to move this out of the 1.5 Release for now.
We should be able to use a cloud service like the Google Vision API or the Azure Computer Vision API to get text from the images of the photos.
The workflow would be something like: Take Photo -> User Hits "Next" -> Upload Photo to Blob Storage -> Send off for OCR with Blob Url-> Prefill Title/Description with OCR results This would require a slight refactor so that images get uploaded and processed before the user edits the Title/Description and submits. Alternatively, we could skip the upload photo step and just send the photo directly to the OCR API? (Not sure what we gain/lose by this.)
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