Show HN: Android OCR-Keyboard

fabio-4 · on June 29, 2020

Hello, I built this keyboard a while ago (2018), but I was sadly never able to release it. Since I had spent way too much time on this idea and I'm trying to get hired, I finally decided to atleast put it onto Github. (Usually not doing any Android development)

(Anyone hiring for ml/mobile dev?)

O_H_E · on June 30, 2020

I hope you the best.

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fabio-4 · on June 30, 2020

Thanks, I'll definitely look into those tomorrow.

gitgud · on June 30, 2020

Interesting, so this is a keyboard with a camera that can translate the camera image to text using OCR?

You might want to add a few sentences in the README explaining exactly what this project is, the images aren't that intuitive.

Looks great though, should definitely help you get hired!

fabio-4 · on June 30, 2020

Thanks, yes it's exactly just that. I thought that this was missing in all those keyboards filled with features (voice recognition, translation etc).

(I have to agree that the screenshots were bad. Press the globe-button to switch into my keyboard -> get a camera-view instead of keyboard-buttons -> take a picture and tap onto a part of the text to get the input.)

victornomad · on June 30, 2020

That's a supercool idea! good luck with the job hunting!

greatjack613 · on June 30, 2020

Really cool idea. What sort of accuracy did you achieve?

fabio-4 · on June 30, 2020

I was using the "Google Mobile Vision - Text Recognition API" back then, which I think is part of their "ML Kit" now (both on-device). The accuracy with that framework was great for full sentences/ blocks of text, probably even better with the newer version now?