Integrate OCR into search in a label-scanning app | Algolia

Optical character recognition (OCR) technology can be integrated with search engines to locate hard-to-find information on package labels, even when the labels are differently structured and contain handwritten text. This integration involves using OCR software like Google Cloud Vision API to convert images into text, which is then fed into a search engine that matches it against structured data. Algolia, an example of such a search engine, has a removeWordsIfNoResults feature that allows for successful matches even when the query contains extraneous words. This integration can be applied beyond package labels, to image recognition and voice recognition applications as well.