Does the OCR extension support JPG format?

Extensions
#1

Hello.

My son is making his app using AppInventor for homework. We want to make an OCR translator - when you take a picture of the text, then the app automatically recognizes the text in the picture and translates it to another language.

We find a cool OCR extension made by Mika that has the method to get the picture of the text and return a string of the text. But Mika’s extension requires a PNG image, while the Android photo app uses JPG.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/released/files/

So I try to use your OCR extension now. Does this support JPG format? If not, what can I do for achieving our goal?

#2

Welcome to the community, see documentation for ocr component below. Since ocr uses ocr.space api I believe it works also with jpg.

#3

I’m sorry but I don’t know how can use that component in my AppInventor project. Can I import the component as an extension? Or how can I use it?

#4

If you are using MIT App Inventor please do ask in App Inventor’s community and not here cause builders are different. If you are using @Mika extension then with his extension he provided a test aia. Check it and see if it works for you. Actually ocr component in Kodular was made by @Mika and works the same as his extension

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#5

Oh, thank you for the clarification!
I’ve thought that Kodular also supports AppInventor extensions, and those two components are the different ones.

#6

Kodular supports extensions for app inventor and vice versa but some components are not the same in both builders so a project from Kodular might not work on App Inventor or an aia from App Inventor might not work with Kodular and that’s why I mentioned to ask only in the builder’s comminity that you are using

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#8

OP is using MIT App Inventor so topic is closed

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