# OCR application on camera

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/ocr-application-on-camera/79353>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [January 20, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/ocr-application-on-camera/79353 "2025-01-20T13:08:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sof](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Sof)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/ocr-application-on-camera/79353/1 "2025-01-20T13:08:11Z")

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Hi Glide Community,

Is it possible to implement OCR functionality in a Glide app that uses the smartphone camera to capture text from images? If yes, how can this be achieved?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/ocr-application-on-camera/79353/2 "2025-01-20T13:17:42Z")

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> [@Sof](#):
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> OCR functionality

You can add image picker component and then run a image to to text action to extract the text from the image.

You may like the Google Cloud vision → Extract text from image or the Azure → Describe image.

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**Author:** ![Sof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sof](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Sof)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/ocr-application-on-camera/79353/3 "2025-01-20T14:24:22Z")

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Thanks Maxime. 🙂

Example I’m aiming for: My user wants to scan the products contained in a ready meal and find out if the products are dangerous - he takes a photo with his phone, the text is extracted and analysed by Google Cloud?

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**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/ocr-application-on-camera/79353/4 "2025-01-20T14:34:02Z")

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If there is no text, you may want to use Azure describe image.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/ocr-application-on-camera/79353/5 "2025-01-20T15:36:57Z")

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Glide AI’s Image to Text can also do it.