I am building an Android app where seven segment digits need to be recognized from picture and populate on screen post processing the data.
This needs to happen in an offline mode. So it needs to run on mobile
I have looked at Tess but it makes app size considerably large hence would like to stick to ML Kit on Firebase.
Is there a way to add seven segment digit recognition in an existing ML Kit text vision API?
Is there a way to add seven segment digit recognition in an existing ML Kit text vision API?
You cannot add it directly. We will have to update the model for the text recognition. That said, things like Driver licenses work for Text recognition with ML Kit. Have you tried running the quick-starter sample app or the codelab on your use case? If your use case does not work out, please feel free to reach out to Firebase Support and we will be happy to understand your use case and update the model.
Other option to consider is training and using your own custom model in ML Kit. You could look at TF Hub for doing transfer learning rather than training from scratch.
