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Flutter-powered AI app builder A head-to-head of two AI & Machine Learning packages on pub.dev, by daily downloads, GitHub activity, and maintenance.
google_mlkit_text_recognition leads on usage with about 4.2x the daily downloads of tflite_flutter (8,303 vs 1,969 per day). google_mlkit_text_recognition has the larger GitHub following (1,270 vs 654 stars).
flutter-ml.dev · v0.16.0
A Flutter plugin to use Google's ML Kit Text Recognition to recognize text in any Chinese, Devanagari, Japanese, Korean and Latin character set.
Replies within ~1 week
🇺🇸 tensorflow.org · v0.12.1
TensorFlow Lite Flutter plugin provides an easy, flexible, and fast Dart API to integrate TFLite models in flutter apps across mobile and desktop platforms.
| Metric | google_mlkit_text_recognition | tflite_flutter |
|---|---|---|
| Downloads / day | 8,303 | 1,969 |
| Rank in AI & Machine Learning | #2 | #6 |
| GitHub stars | 1,270 | 654 |
| Likes | 406 | 899 |
| Pub points | 150 / 160 | 140 / 160 |
| Issue response (median) | 5 days | — |
| Contributors | 54 | 27 |
| Last commit | 9 days ago | 9 months ago |
| CI | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| First published | 4 years ago | 6 years ago |
| Platforms | android, ios | android, ios, windows, linux, macos |
Highlighted cell wins each comparable metric. For rank, issue response, and last commit, lower is better.