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OCR Text Scanning Integration #715

Open 0skar2 opened 1 month ago

0skar2 commented 1 month ago

Use Cases

Sometimes i have to copy a text from document to an app, which might be tedious if that text is long enough. an OCR integration was introduced in gboard, which is useful, because of how easy it is to scan text immediately using keyboard, instead of an external app.

Proposal

An OCR integration similar to what gboard has at this moment under the "Text Scanning" button. It would take a temporary picture of the given document, and extract text from it. The only difference would be (obviously) be open source, and using open source ocr models

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zynexiz commented 3 weeks ago

IMO, this is not within a scope of a keyboard. It's a neat feature for those in use of it, but implementing in in a keyboard adds complexity and unnecessary bloat to it. Better to use a dedicated app for that purposes.