Text Recognition

After a successful scan or import of a document, you can get the detected text of the entire document or single pages.

Initialization

• Follow the Getting started guide
• Set android.enableJetifier=true in your gradle.properties file
• Initialize the Docutain Android SDK as described here

Get the detected text

In order to get the detected text of the entire document, call the following line of code:

Kotlin

import de.docutain.sdk.dataextraction.DocumentDataReader

...
//scan or import file
...

val detectedText = DocumentDataReader.getText()

Java

import de.docutain.sdk.dataextraction.DocumentDataReader

...
//scan or import file
...

String detectedText = DocumentDataReader.getText();

In order to get the detected text of a specific page, specify the page number:

Kotlin

val detectedText = DocumentDataReader.getText(1)

Java

String detectedText = DocumentDataReader.getText(1);