Configuring custom files .any and .ale in Android

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Last updated: 03 Apr, 2024 by Colm Rogers
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You might receive custom files of type .any and .ale from Anyline which are tailored to your specific requirements. Our custom format .ale and .any files are encrypted resource files containing the instructions for processing your custom use.

This article gives step-by-step instructions showing the configuration in an Android activity.

 

How to Configure the Custom .any and .ale Files

There are basically 2 ways to configure custom .any and .ale files:

  • The first one is via code (using methods in an Android activity).

  • The second one is declarative by extending the View Configuration.

The example shown below describes an OCR configuration. Custom .any and .ale files can be implemented for other use cases as well. In this case please use the corresponding Anyline Config classes.

  1. Copy the the .ale file to the folder app/src/main/assets of your app.

  2. Check if there is a folder called app/src/main/trained_models. If it does not exist, create this folder.

  3. Copy the .any file to the newly created folder app/src/main/trained_models.

  4. Add the following statements to your Android activity:

    ... private ScanView scanView; private OcrScanViewPlugin scanViewPlugin; io.anyline.plugin.ocr.AnylineOcrConfig anylineOcrConfig; ... scanView = findViewById(R.id.scan_view); ... // this is one way to set the view configuration file: try { scanView.init("your_view_configuration_file.json"); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } ... anylineOcrConfig = new AnylineOcrConfig(); ... anylineOcrConfig.setCustomCmdFile("your_custom_file.ale"); anylineOcrConfig.setModel("your_custom_file.any"); // add further config settings ... scanViewPlugin = new OcrScanViewPlugin(getApplicationContext(), anylineOcrConfig, scanView.getScanViewPluginConfig(), "OCR"); ... scanView.setScanViewPlugin(scanViewPlugin);