Android Question Does this seem too complex?

Interesting application!

I would guess, yes. It would be possible for somebody with coding experience, but new to B4A.

There are camera libraries for displaying a full-screen preview, focusing upon button press, and then taking a snapshot.

I have seen posts mentioning OCR libraries, although I have no experience with these.

Once the OCR returns the text, there are Text to Speech libraries for B4A.

I can see the details of an application like this being tricky – how do you isolate and focus the desired text. What happens if OCR is less than 100%.

Have you searched Google Play? I bet there are free or low-cost apps that do what you want. They have probably addressed the tricky details and could probably give some ideas.

Barry.

Thanks Barry. The reason I'm looking at writing it myself is because I haven't had any luck finding such an App ... yet. Maybe I need to dig deeper I just got B4A and the rest of the dependencies installed so I figured I'd play around a bit and see how it works.

Appreciate the comments! If anyone else has done anything similar, or has any advice, I would appreciate that too!

you have all the necessary tools already available here in the shop (forum), time to make use of your skills!

Hi Joe,

Very nice idea and the complete solution might already exist Have a look at this post from @Johan Schoeman ('Touch a green box with yellow text when the scanner is active and it will speak out the text in the box using the Android Text-To-Speech Engine'): https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/ocr-ocr-reader-complete.70659/

Good luck!