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Lately, I’ve been working on a delivery tracking application on React/React Native. One of the features is to allow a user to take a picture of a shipping label on your phone, and translate that label into a tracking number we can work with on the back end. The goal of this feature is to minimize the time spent to manually input tracking numbers, which range from 13–26 characters long depending on the service. In my quest to implement this feature, I came across a technique known as optical character recognition and an incredible image recognition toolkit from <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/google" target="_blank">Google</a>. In this article, I’ll go over the basics of how this method works, and how to integrate it into your application.