Inspiration
I wanted to make something cool.
What it does
The app allows the user to take pictures and then reads all the contents of the images using mobile vision and text to speech combined. The user can listen to the text any number of times.
How I built it
I built an android application using android studio. I used Google's mobile vision API for text recognition and the inbuilt Text to Speech Engine for speaking out the text.
Challenges I ran into
I did not have an Android phone and so I had to work around the various limitations of AVD's. Also the android sdk returns a low quality thumbnail image by default when using the camera and so I had to figure out how to get the high quality version as clarity is a must for text recognition. I had also never used the Google Mobile Vision API before and it took me some time to figure out how to integrate it in my app.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I was able to make a cool app which helps people.
What I learned
I learned a lot more about android application development.
Built With
- android-studio
- google-mobile-vision
- google-text-to-speech-engine
- java
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