title: How to extract text from image Android app
body: <p>I am working on a feature for my Android app. I would like to read text from a picture then save that text in a database. Is using OCR the best way? Is there another way? Google suggests in its documentation that NDK should only be used if strictly necessary but what are the downfalls exactly?</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be great. </p>
  
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