# rn-text-detector

> Text Detector from image for react native

Latest version **0.0.8** (published 2020-10-29) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install rn-text-detector
pnpm add rn-text-detector
yarn add rn-text-detector
bun add rn-text-detector
```

## Health

**Score 15/100 (F)** — status: abandoned.

Positive: no vulnerabilities.

Warnings: low downloads; no types; no esm support; pre 1.0.

Negative: abandoned; low maintenance score.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.0.8 |
| Published | 2020-10-29 |
| First published | 2019-05-13 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 0 |
| Unpacked size | 43.1 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| Author | Ashrith |
| Maintainers | ashrithks |
| Keywords | react-native |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rn-text-detector
- Homepage: https://github.com/ashrithks/rn-text-detector
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/rn-text-detector

## Recent versions

- 0.0.8 (latest) — 2020-10-29
- 0.0.7 — 2020-10-29
- 0.0.6 — 2020-10-28
- 0.0.5 — 2019-05-23
- 0.0.4 — 2019-05-13
- 0.0.3 — 2019-05-13
- 0.0.2 — 2019-05-13
- 0.0.1 — 2019-05-13

## README

# rn-text-detector

## Getting started

`$ npm install rn-text-detector --save` or `yarn add rn-text-detector`

### Manual installation

#### iOS


##### Using Pods (Recommended)
1. In `<your_project>/ios` create Podfile file `pod init`
2. Add following in `ios/Podfile` 
```ruby
    pod 'yoga', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga'
    pod 'React', :path => '../node_modules/react-native'
    pod 'RNTextDetector', path: '../node_modules/react-native-text-detector/ios'
```
3. Run following from project's root directory
```bash
    pod update && pod install
```
4. Use `<your_project>.xcworkspace` to run your app

##### Direct Linking
1.  In XCode, in the project navigator, right click `Libraries` ➜ `Add Files to [your project's name]`
2.  Go to `node_modules` ➜ `rn-text-detector` and add `RNTextDetector.xcodeproj`
3.  In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add `libRNTextDetector.a` to your project's `Build Phases` ➜ `Link Binary With Libraries`
4.  Run your project (`Cmd+R`)<

#### Android

1.  Open up `android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java`

- Add `import com.fetchsky.RNTextDetector.RNTextDetectorPackage;` to the imports at the top of the file
- Add `new RNTextDetectorPackage()` to the list returned by the `getPackages()` method

2.  Append the following lines to `android/settings.gradle`:
    ```
    include ':rn-text-detector'
    project(':rn-text-detector').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/rn-text-detector/android')
    ```
3.  Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in `android/app/build.gradle`:

    ```
    ...
    dependencies {

        implementation 'rn-text-detector'
    }
#### MLKIT

Follow MLkit documentation,
https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/vision/text-recognition

## Usage

```javascript
/**
 *
 * This Example uses react-native-camera for getting image
 *
 */

import RNTextDetector from "rn-text-detector";

export class TextDetectionComponent extends PureComponent {
  ...

  detectText = async () => {
    try {
      const options = {
        quality: 0.8,
        base64: true,
        skipProcessing: true,
      };
      const { uri } = await this.camera.takePictureAsync(options);
      const visionResp = await RNTextDetector.detectFromUri(uri);
      console.log('visionResp', visionResp);
    } catch (e) {
      console.warn(e);
    }
  };

  ...
}
```

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