Devansh-Maurya / PukaPuka

An Android app to identify books from their covers and give info, built using ML Kit's Text Recognition API, Android Jetpack Libraries and Google Books API

PukaPuka

An Android app that helps to get information about any book by either scanning its cover. PukaPuka comes from the Maori word for ‘Book’.

The app was also an example to showcase the various design patterns used in an Android app.

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Detailed Report (PDF)

How it works?

• The app uses Firebase ML Kit’s Text Recognition API to recognize text from the image captured using device camera.
• The text extracted from the image is then filtered to remove unwanted information.
• The filtered text is then used to make a GET request to Google Books API to get a list of relevant books.
• The user can then click on an image that suits best with the scanned book cover and get information about it.

Screenshots

Home Screen	Scanning the book

Matching books list	Book details

Technologies Used

• Kotlin as the main programming language
• MVVM architecture pattern using the Android Architecture Components
• LiveData, ViewModel
• Navigation Components for simplified navigations
• CameraKit for using camera functionalities
• Firebase ML Kit Text Recognition API for extracting text from the image
• Glide image loading library
• Volley networking library for making network requests
• Lottie for adding animations