Cloud Text Recognition or On-Device? Google Text-Recognition Services
I am considering using Google's API for Text Recognition - what is the difference between the On-Device option and the Cloud option that is part of firebase? Both in the implementation and the result - how do I know which one is best for my particular app?
A little bit of background:
- I am building a Xamarin.Forms cross-platform app
- I am a complete beginner (but have worked with Firebase Realtime Database and Auth)
Can these OCR options be integrated with cross-platform Xamarin.Forms? Or only with native apps? Thank you!
what is the difference between the On-Device option and the Cloud option that is part of firebase?
On-device text recognition is part of the new standalone ML Kit SDK, which you can use with or without Firebase.
Cloud text recognition is part of Firebase ML, which includes all of Firebase's cloud-based ML features.
More detailed info, please take a look:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/ml-kit/recognize-text
You can choose one way to do according to your requirement.