OCR Address Scanner – Android Route Planner App

Route4Me’s Android Route Planner app provides seamless continuity throughout the entire multi-stop route planning, optimization, navigation, and completion process. For your convenience and efficiency, Route4Me’s Android Route Optimization app features integrated optical character recognition (OCR) address scanner.

In detail, you can easily scan and add addresses to routes in seconds without having to add each address manually. Since it’s integrated, you don’t need any additional scanner apps, OCR software, document scanner apps, or cam scanners for mobile scanning and text recognition. Furthermore, Route4Me’s OCR address scanner can detect even parts of addresses from any surface, in different fonts, or even handwritten addresses, and automatically suggest available address options.

Optical character recognition (OCR) address scanner on Route4Me's Android Route Planner app.

 

 

Using Optical Character Recognition OCR Address Scanner

To use the OCR address scanner for adding addresses into a new route, start planning a new route. To do so, open the app’s navigation menu and tap on the “Add New Route” button. Next, name the route, schedule the route, specify the route’s optimization settings, and then tap the “Continue” button. After that, tap on the “Set Your Departure Address” button to start adding route addresses. Additionally, learn more about planning routes on Route4Me’s Android Route Planner app, route optimization settings, and other methods for adding addresses to routes.

Plan a new route and add route addresses on Route4Me's Android Multi-Stop Route Planner app for delivery drivers.

 

Next, tap on the camera icon to launch the OCR address scanner. After that, point your device’s camera and fit the address you want to scan within the scanner’s frame. Depending on your OCR scanner settings, the app will automatically scan and add the address or you can tap the camera icon to capture the address. After that, Route4Me will automatically detect and geocode the address. Depending on how clear and full the scanned address is, Route4Me may suggest one or multiple address options.

Launch optical character recognition OCR address scanner on the Android Route Planner app for drivers.

 

Next, you can edit the selected address or tap the “Add to Route” button to add the scanned address. After that, you can check the number of scanned addresses and then tap the “Go to Route” button to add the address and return to the route. Accordingly, you can then tap the “Add Another Destination” button to keep adding more addresses.

Scan addresses and labels with the OCR address scanner to add route stops on the Android Route Planner app for drivers.

 

To use the OCR address scanner for adding addresses to a planned route, tap the plus icon at the top of the opened route. Next, tap the camera icon to launch the OCR address scanner and then use it to scan the preferred addresses.

Insert addresses into planned routes using the OCR address scanner on the Android Route Planner app.

 

After scanning and adding one or multiple addresses, tap the “Go to Route” button. The scanned and added addresses will be automatically added to the end of the route. Accordingly, you can re-optimize the route to automatically sequence the route with the newly added stops.

Using OCR address scanner to scan addresses and add route stops on the Android Route Planner app for drivers.

 

OCR Address Scanner Settings on Android Route Planner App

To adjust the OCR address scanner settings on your Android Route Planner app, launch the scanner. Next, tap on the settings icon and then select the Manual Scanning Mode or Automatic Scanning Mode. After selecting the preferred option, the scanner will automatically close and use the selected scanning mode.

Adjusting the OCR address scanner settings to automatically detect and capture addresses on boxes and labels.

SettingsDescription
Manual Scanning ModePoint your camera at the address and tap the capture button once the address is recognized.
Automatic Scanning ModePoint your camera at the address and hold until the address is automatically recognized.

 

 

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Route4Me has over 35,000 customers globally. Route4Me's Android and iPhone mobile apps have been downloaded over 2 million times since 2009. Extremely easy-to-use, Route4Me's apps create optimized routes, synchronize routes to mobile devices, enable communication with drivers and customers, offer turn-by-turn directions, delivery confirmation, and more. Behind the scenes, Route4Me's operational optimization platform combines high-performance algorithms with data science, machine learning, and big data to plan, optimize, and analyze routes of almost any size in real-time.