Hey beautiful Bubblers.
Does anyone have any experience with an OCR or barcode reader that can be used in Bubble to read shipping labels? I’d rather just use a plugin (of course!) but am down for a functional and affordable API too.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I don’t think barcode readers have much to do with bubble, they are more like a keyboard or a mouse in a sens that they function separately from the program you are running.
For example if you scan a bar code using a bar code reader while your browser’s search bar is clicked it will paste a n digit string to the search bar.
Im not sure my explaination is very clear so I can expand on our experience with barcode readers.
The feature we built is a search bar that work with bar code. When you scan a barcode using a bar code reader while the field is clicked it paste the barcode n digit caracters to the field then search for that code in our database and return the name of the product as a result.
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I hope I understood your question correctly and this helps 
Thanks for the insight, Pierre. In this instance I would need a return of the text data on the label so I think an OCR service might be what I require. Not seeing a whole lot of options for shipping labels though.
Was curious if anyone used Textract or another OCR service to bring shipping label contents into their Bubble app.
There is a plugin that “eases” the use of the aws textract api… (it still is not so simple to use)
I decided to go with Azure that is much, much simpler… (ans benchmarks say it’s better at recognition). It’s a simple api call with an url to the file you want analyzed and you get a response containing the data as json.
That seems to be the route to go. I appreciate your advice.
I found another OCR API with ML recommend by users here that seems to do the trick:
It’s not a plugin but if you are somewhat comfortable with bubbles API system then it should be an easy enough setup too
Hi @designers, perhaps you want to have a look at
Much easier now as you can “query” the document in natural language to get the data of your choice extracted.
