PicToText: Text Recognition using Firebase Machine Learning Kit

Back in the days, documents, payment receipts, and books are being published in printed format. To make a digital format, readers need to manually type them into a computer. However, things have change rapidly especially in the information technology (IT) industry. Optical character recognition (OCR) has been introduced to simplify the digitalization process for users. However, OCR not able to translate scanned text images into different human readable languages. Therefore, this paper proposed an Android-based application programming interface (API) developed using Firebase as an improvement text recognition program that able to translate the scanned text images into language of user preference. This proposed API processes text images, detects text from the scanned images, and translate the text into user-preferred languages. The used data in this paper is the research papers available in the university library.