Disordering of Extracted Lines from ML kit Text Extraction API(OnDeviceTextRecogniser)

[phani-artiovatic]

Step 1: Describe your environment

• Android device: Nokia 2.2___
• Android OS version: Android 9.0
• Google Play Services version: _____
• Firebase/Play Services SDK version: _____

Step 2: Describe the problem:

On providing images with texts in same line having large spaces in between them are separated into different blocks. This inreturn messes up order of lines in text extraction. But order of lines is very important in our case.

Steps to reproduce:

1.Provide an image with words in same line with large spaces
2.And check output Text , you can see order of lines disordered in large degree

Observed Results: This is Raw text from TextExtraction API

Sample Input

Output

ORIGINAL
L For Recioient
BILL OF SUPPLY
ABD CO
20/0/208
BOS0057
M.G.RAOD, Delhi, Delhi 110099
GSTIN 0TA
State
PAN
434
B Date
07-Delhi
AAECC8220
No
Reference Nio PO.78708
Customer Name
ACC &CO
Customar GSTIN
27A
Place of Supsly
Billing Addres
ACC &CO
Maharashtr
Shipping Addres
ACC&CO
Maharashtra
120
27-Maharashtra
Due Date 24/01/2038
Discount (
Rate / tem (
Total ()
tem
HSN/SAC Quantity
1,809.00
KGS
1.Slag for manufacturing iron
8,678.67
171,30,30,762.64
Total ()
1,30,30,762.64
1,30,30,763.00
0.36
One Crore Thirty Lakh Thirty Thousand Seven Hundred Sity Three Rupees Only
Total Value
Rounding off
Total amount in words)
For ABD Cco
Authorised Signatory

Expected Results:

Expected result is line by line extraction.Currently its block by block extraction or is there way to acheive it?

Relevant Code:

depnedecny used com.google.firebase:firebase-ml-vision:20.0.0'(OnDeviceTextRecogniser)

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[phani-artiovatic]

Hai,
Please provide resources for resolving, this is high priority.

[samtstern]

@phani-artiovatic you will need to use the information returned in the TextBlock object to align these yourself:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/android/com/google/firebase/ml/vision/text/FirebaseVisionText.TextBlock

I will consider this a feature request for this sample repo to show how to do this.

[samtstern]

@gkaldev do you think you could change the sample code to show how to extract text in a sensible order?

[phani-artiovatic]

@samtstern @gkaldev thanks for the response. I have a dependency on this issue/feature so it would help in lot of ways, so requesting to help close this asap.

[phani-artiovatic]

Thanks found a way to order lines through their bounding box info

[samtstern]

@phani-artiovatic glad you found a solution! Re-opening this as I think it's a good feature request for the sample.

[phani-artiovatic]

Hi @samtstern any updates here? solution i found was temporary and works on small size texts.

[phani-artiovatic]

any progress here @samtstern

[gkaldev]

@phani-artiovatic can you clarify why the solution you implemented is dependent on text size?

[phani-artiovatic]

I have a couple of use cases and i have used line and word bounding box coordinates to arrange them accordingly, its specific to use cases, haven't generalised ordering logic. Just wanted to check if there's better logic to generalise ordering.

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[arvind-artivatic]

Please update this issue, I also have some use cases which support this issue and my use cases.

[jitesh-sharma]

any update on it for iOS ???

[miworking3]

I'm afraid the iOS version won't adopt such change in the future. Closing it with obsolete as it has been over 2 years.

[Shahir1730623]

did anyone find solution to this problem?

[sidetraxaudio]

This should be re-opened. The tool is useless for adjacent data extraction from static fields when its return text is totally out of order. There are actually those of us doing professional work not playing with toys in their parents basement in California.