‘Anyline’ is a mobile text recognition tool. The tool’s Optical Character Recognition(OCR) helps you recognize a variety of text, codes & numbers. This platform comes with a Software Development Kit (SDK), which you can implement into your mobile app solution & adapt it to your needs.
It uses OCR to convert your images of digital, printed text into machine-encoded text. Therefore, it extracts all information from your images into editable data. For easy integration on multiple mobile platforms, Anyline runs on a C++ code. In addition, Anyline supports offline scanning. It works directly on your smartphone & without the need for a server connection to process images.
Anyline has preconfigured modules such as MRZ scanning, Utility Meter scanning, Barcode scanning that you can use out of the box. With Anyline’s SDK, the scanning happens in the video stream. The SDK processes these video frames to extract the text in real time. Then Anyline’s real recognition will detect the number or code & give you feedback about the accuracy & transform this information into digital outputs.
According to its developers, this tool will give you enough computer vision knowledge to embed & build an app with OCR. They have compressed their SDK into simple parameters such as font size, font layout, character set & color. Therefore, you can decide on what to scan. In addition, Anyline gives you complete UI customization. Hence, you are in charge of designing the look & feel of the scanning frames like loading bars & including your logos. The SDK also offers haptic feedback & audio features.
Anyline also helps you with font training. It offers you a free tool to train your fonts for the Open-Source FrameWork Tesseract. However, they package this into an external tool. To access Anyline, you just need to register & download the SDK. After downloading the SDK, they’ll send an email telling you how to generate a license key. This tool needs to run in an app to allow it to access the native camera API hence the need for SDK implementation in multiple apps.
It is available for Android, iOS, React Native, Xamaria & Cordova. For compatibility, it requires iOS 7 or higher, Android 4.0.3 or API 15 & higher. The startup’s founders are Lukas Kinigadner the CEO, Daniel Albertini the CTO, Jakob Hofer the head of organization & David Dengg a developer. Its headquarters is in Austria.
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