# Image Recognition to Text

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-recognition-to-text/833910>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** ocr, image-recognition\
**Created:** [September 20, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-recognition-to-text/833910 "2020-09-20T16:18:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![cancmaster2016o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@cancmaster2016o](https://community.thunkable.com/u/cancmaster2016o)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-recognition-to-text/833910/1 "2020-09-20T16:18:04Z")

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Hi All

I am a Thunkable Beginner

I would like to build an app that will pull up Car Details from a Reg Plate.

Would it be possible to take a photo of the car reg plate and get the image recognition convert it to TEXT and fill in a Label control ?

Thanks for reading, any ideas greatly appreciated 🙂

Miles

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**Author:** ![Dean\_Artis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Dean\_Artis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Dean_Artis)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-recognition-to-text/833910/3 "2020-09-21T21:01:12Z")

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That has nothing to do with Thunkable X.

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**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 10:32am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-recognition-to-text/833910/5 "2020-09-22T10:32:04Z")

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Hey @cancmaster2016o welcome to the Thunkable community! 👋

> [@cancmaster2016o](#):
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> I am a Thunkable Beginner

What you’re looking to do should be possible with an OCR API (try searching the Community for OCR) but it’s probably on the the more advanced/complex side of things.

Is this the first app you’re trying to build with Thunkable?

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**Author:** ![cancmaster2016o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@cancmaster2016o](https://community.thunkable.com/u/cancmaster2016o)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 10:37am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-recognition-to-text/833910/6 "2020-09-22T10:37:33Z")

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Thanks for you help / advice

Yes it is, maybe a little ambitious lol

I think I will start with something more basic 🙂

Thanks again

Miles

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**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-recognition-to-text/833910/7 "2020-09-22T10:45:00Z")

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Sounds like the best approach to me Miles!

I’ve tagged the OCR related posts in the Community for you here:  
[http://community.thunkable.com/tag/ocr](http://community.thunkable.com/tag/ocr)

One of the more popular OCR APIs seems to be this one:  
[https://ocr.space/ocrapi](https://ocr.space/ocrapi)

To learn how APIs work (and build some really interesting apps along the way) we have some tutorials on our YouTube Channel:  
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLB89L9PPGIrzgD2b9Y0Lvmt_tQYrJSbFT&wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=1&enablejsapi=1

And you can also find some great tutorials over on @darren’s channel too:  
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLArgGKS_QtY4DjGqaYiqUd6JIDuAWT1pG&wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=1&enablejsapi=1

Hope that helps!

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-recognition-to-text/833910/8 "2024-11-08T12:23:51Z")

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