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Text Detection API

Text Detection API

With the Text Detection API, you can detect text regions in images and videos.

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Demo

  1. Open the Chrome browser on your computer. Type chrome://flags in the URL bar and enable the #enable-experimental-web-platform-features flag. Then restart your browser.
  2. Upload an image that contains text.
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  3. Check out the code of the demo below!

Limitations of the Text Detection API

The Text Detector interface of the Shape Detection API is an experimental feature that can identify text within images and videos. However, it currently works only in Chrome and Edge and requires the Experimental Web Platform features flag to be enabled. Also while this API can detect text regions, it cannot extract the actual text content from those regions on its own.

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