# Text recognizing app?

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-recognizing-app/68655>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** ocr\
**Created:** [February 13, 2019, 12:56am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-recognizing-app/68655 "2019-02-13T00:56:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Toxicl16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d2c977/32.png) [@Toxicl16](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Toxicl16)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 12:56am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-recognizing-app/68655/1 "2019-02-13T00:56:04Z")

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Is there any way in Thunkable X to take a picture, and then from that picture recognizer certain text. I must do this for an app that scans an ingredient label and recognizes certain ingredients. If this is possible, how would I do this? I have found that the Image Recognizer component can’t exactly do this. Please Help…  
Thank you very much,  
Leland

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**Author:** ![Cian\_O\_Sullivan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/cian_o_sullivan/32/34494_2.png) [@Cian\_O\_Sullivan](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Cian_O_Sullivan)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-recognizing-app/68655/2 "2019-02-13T00:59:45Z")

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OCR abilities are available through the Web API component. You can use that so send to all sorts of services to do the OCR.

That is the best way to do it, and yes it can be done in Thunkable X

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**Author:** ![Toxicl16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d2c977/32.png) [@Toxicl16](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Toxicl16)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-recognizing-app/68655/3 "2019-02-13T01:00:19Z")

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How exactly would I do this?

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**Author:** ![Cian\_O\_Sullivan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/cian_o_sullivan/32/34494_2.png) [@Cian\_O\_Sullivan](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Cian_O_Sullivan)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-recognizing-app/68655/4 "2019-02-13T01:03:28Z")

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There is a self help component. You came in in two threads, and doing it of reading and trying would help.

Example… I am only a Thunkable user for a few months and I have OCR’ed in 3 or 4 different ways.

OCR is a service and most charge for it. Learn how to use the Web API functions and you can connect to a bunch of things!!!

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**Author:** ![Toxicl16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d2c977/32.png) [@Toxicl16](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Toxicl16)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-recognizing-app/68655/5 "2019-02-13T01:04:16Z")

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Thank you very much I will look into this and get back to you about how it worked.

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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, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-recognizing-app/68655/6 "2024-11-08T12:16:17Z")

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