So I want to have people submit an image of a thermometer and have the physcial number be stored in a database. How can I do this
Hello 
Welcome to Bubble. You will probably need to us an API or a plugin. I would recommend trying these:
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Hope that helps! 
Hi @ishaanm09,
I would suggest here not to use a OCR plugin for your use case, because these are focussed on OCRing documents, but instead a plugin able to detect a label (e.g. text) on an image, such as this one: AWS Rekognition - Detect Text Plugin
I hope that helps.