Text Recognition in Unity

[John Reid]

Just wondering if the text recognition portion of mlkit will be available in Unity in the near or long term?

[Sachin Kotwani]

Hi John,

We are evaluating plans to add support for other platforms, but at the moment the best way is to wrap the Android and iOS SDKs for use in mobile.

Sachin.-

ML Kit for Firebase, Product Manager

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 7:28 PM John Reid <redlion...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just wondering if the text recognition portion of mlkit will be available in Unity in the near or long term?

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[Kingsley]

Hi Sachin,

Any update on getting text recognition in Unity3d?

or any suggestion on resources to explore your suggestion of "wrap", (outside my knowledge at moment).

I have the online text recognition working well in Unity, but extremely slow compared to the on device ML sample I have running via Android Studio. Really trying to avoid relearning a complete new package (Android Studio), would prefer to stay in Unity land. :)

thanks

Kingsley

[Sachin Kotwani]

Hi Kingsley,

Unfortunately no update on that front. I found the following tutorials that should be useful if you are interested in using the Android library within a Unity app:

https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2014/06/creating-an-android-java-plugin-for-unity3d/

https://medium.com/@agrawalsuneet/native-android-in-unity-8ebfb42edfe8

Hope that helps,

Sachin

ML Kit for Firebase, Product Manager

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[Kingsley]

Thanks for prompt update Sachin,

Will look into your suggestions ...

and hope that text recognition moves out of Beta & is ported over to Unity3d environment soon.

Kingsley

[ManWithSteelNerves]

Hi,

Any timeline or is ML Kit planned for Unity?

Thanks