Not particularly Android related but I’m fairly certain you can do some OCR with Python. Question is whether you want to analyse an image file or straight into the camera. The latter might be a challenge.
i have posted this in an android community because i want to do it with an android app :/
unless there’s a way to easily run a python program with all the necessary dependencies on android this does not help me
no need for Python. there’s a Google SDK, ML Kit, that will do the heavy lifting on this. if that’s not acceptable, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and ONNX support Android, albeit not as nicely integrated.
your image processing pipeline will be imageSource -> RGB encoding -> OCR -> profit. your OCR just needs an RGB encoded image. doesn’t matter if that’s a JPEG or YUV video feed at the source.
as for if there’s an app that fits OP’s exact use case, dunno.
Man, you over complicated this task. OP, in F-Droid there are three apps that are based on a popular OCR Python library called tesseract. Just search for this term on F-Droid and give those apps a try.
i mean, you’re right. i’m just saying it’s a little silly to ship a Python interpreter when there are easier, better supported ways to do the same thing.
looks like tesseract provides C bindings which are probably being utilized in those apps.
I use this app for scanning documents, I just tried sharing a picture to the app and running OCR on that picture, which also worked fine, so it should also fit your usecase.
Edit: I’ve never looked into making a custom Android TV device either. I have a Shield but it could be cool to make my own with a Pi 5 or something for travel.
I mean, in the cas of Projectivity at least, when you launch Projectivity the first time it will ask you to change specific settings and it will take you to the corresponding menus. You just need to read the instructions and press OK. Sorry I can’t be more specific at this time, as I am away from my TV.
Only works if you haven’t updated it since the February 2021 update. You also would lose the actual built in Chromecast feature.
Cool but I don’t really see why you would do it on this device when you can just flash android to a raspberry pi or something and have basically the same thing at that point.
I have an orange pi running android 12 hooked up to a TV and the lack of native apps for stuff like hulu [tablets not supported.] and I have the navigation bar stuck on the bottom even in full screen mode. I need to figure out a way to hide that. So it’s not quite so easy. If Lineage can come with the TV configuration working out of the box, then for 50 bucks WITH a remote… its an absolute STEAL.
I have one of these sitting new in box unopened. If I have time later I will give this a try.
EDIT: To answer what you said, the reason you might want to do this is that this hardware doesn’t need to be chromecasted to by a phone or laptop or something. It can have native apps installed directly on it, and be controlled via your normal TV remote control.
Granted I haven’t tested this yet to see if it works with the alternative OS.
It would be truly awesome to have a degoogled streaming device that you could sideload apps on, use your regular TV remote with CEC etc. Even better if you could use alternative apps to get ad free YouTube streaming.
In contrast, for the unmodded device, the default GoogleTV setup and UI is horrible. You have to manually remove all the garbage apps you don’t want. It still shows you suggested banners of terrible content exclusive to certain apps that you don’t even have installed.
If you mean you have an unopened 4k Chromecast chances are you don’t have the exploitable firmware. I have one NIB right here and it’s dated 2024 mfg so chances of being unpatched are nearly 0.
Shouldn’t be any problem. I’ve been doing open source ROMs since android v2 and it works fine on AT&T and Verizon.
One caveat is to make sure you have VoLTE working on stock android before you flash a new ROM. Sometimes that must be activated on the carrier with stock android to work on LineageOS or GrapheneOS
Oh finally I can pull it out of my closet and actually use it again! Oh wait… It requires you have not updated the device.
I guess I’ll just hit it with a sledgehammer then and continue to use my computer that doesn’t force ads on me by default because I run Linux and also use my Windows 11 computer with updates disabled on it that will probably be switched over to Linux when 24H2 comes out or when 23H2 no longer receives security updates.
P.S. You can’t change the default launcher anymore and scoped filesystems basically broke all functionality on the thing that I was using it for. I also don’t know the domains for Google’s ads that they show on the device and I don’t care anymore.
The best that comes to my mind is fastdraw which allows you to have one widget + an icon pack like arcticons to remove the flashy icons ( though i’m not sure if fast draw supports icons or if i’m mixing up with another launcher) + wallpaper of the same color as the lines to make only the text show
Can she rotate the phone 90 degrees and take a screenshot using both pointer fingers? You’d have to take into account accidentally rotating the screen so you’d have to make sure to keep it flat.
I don’t have arthritis but that’s how I take screenshots on phones where the buttons are all on the same side.
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