react-native-text-detector | Text Detector from image | Computer Vision library

$ npm install react-native-text-detector --save or yarn add react-native-text-detector.
Import your tessdata folder (you can download one for your language from Google's Repo OR if that gives an error use THIS REPO as referenced on stack overflow as solution into the root of your project AS A REFERENCED FOLDER (see below). It contains the Tesseract trained data files. You can add your own trained data files here too.
Add following in ios/Podfile
Run following from project's root directory
Use <your_project>.xcworkspace to run your app
In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-text-detector and add RNTextDetector.xcodeproj
In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNTextDetector.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
Run your project (Cmd+R)<
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
Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle: include ':react-native-text-detector' project(':react-native-text-detector').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-text-detector/android')
Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle: ... dependencies { implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.1' implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-ml-vision:17.0.0' implementation (project(':react-native-text-detector')) { exclude group: 'com.google.firebase' } } // Place this line at the end of file apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services' // Work around for onesignal-gradle-plugin compatibility com.google.gms.googleservices.GoogleServicesPlugin.config.disableVersionCheck = true
Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/build.gradle: buildscript { repositories { google() ... } dependencies { classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1' classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.0.1' // google-services plugin } }