CantoRead Blog

iOS Gallery's OCR beats the Vision Framework's

I’ve tried out a few different Optical Character Recognition (OCR) services for Canto Read. First I tried out Apple’s Vision Framework, it all happens on the device which is nice, however the results I got weren’t very good. It failed to detect a lot of text, and the text that was recognised often was incorrect. So I thought, “Ahh that’s a bummer” and moved on to using Google’s similarly named