Hello,
I have used this library for successful experiments, thx.
I could cope with the underlying library's limitations (e.g. image size) but I spent a lot of time trying to compensate the lack of information about text direction. Indeed, I have scanned engineering plans where there are text fragments in many directions, for example along vertical lines.
Of course, it is rather easy to differentiate text written vertically vs horizontally (or even at 45 degrees) by looking at the proportions of the bounding box. However, when the page has been scanned top-down, then all horizontal text is to be read from right to left, instead of the opposite. This might have an impact on how you are looking for some info which is expected to be left or right to some specific label.
So it would be great if the library would return some indication about the text writing orientation.
However, I'll had a quick look at Apple's doc and it does not seem that the Livetext library returns such an information....
Regards
Hello,
I have used this library for successful experiments, thx.
I could cope with the underlying library's limitations (e.g. image size) but I spent a lot of time trying to compensate the lack of information about text direction. Indeed, I have scanned engineering plans where there are text fragments in many directions, for example along vertical lines.
Of course, it is rather easy to differentiate text written vertically vs horizontally (or even at 45 degrees) by looking at the proportions of the bounding box. However, when the page has been scanned top-down, then all horizontal text is to be read from right to left, instead of the opposite. This might have an impact on how you are looking for some info which is expected to be left or right to some specific label.
So it would be great if the library would return some indication about the text writing orientation.
However, I'll had a quick look at Apple's doc and it does not seem that the Livetext library returns such an information....
Regards