Android Mobile Vision restores operation and adds Text API

We’re also pleased to announce the Text API, a new component for Android Mobile
Vision.

The Text API’s optical character recognition technology reads Latin character
text (e.g. English, Spanish, German, French, etc.) in photos and returns the
text as well as the organizational structure (paragraphs, lines, words). Mobile
apps can now:

• Organize photos that contain text
  
• Automate tedious data entry for credit cards, receipts, and business cards
  
• Translate documents (along with the which will get Android
  developers reading text with their apps in under an hour.
  
  
  

  
  Like the Mobile Vision Face and Barcode components, the Text API runs on-device
  and is suitable for real-time applications. For more information, check out the