In our post from about a month ago, we compared two of the major on-device text recognition SDKs on iOS: Firebase’s ML Kit & Tesseract OCR. The results were pretty one-sided, as ML Kit outclassed Tesseract on many of the predictions and showed much better accuracy even when it failed.

At the very end of our post, we showed a summary of results on Android devices. We saw that Tesseract OCR on Android wasn’t that far away from ML Kit. But we also saw that ML Kit on Android devices does not perform as well as it does on iOS devices. We shared details of our Android results here: