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public class

# Element

extends Object
implements Text

java.lang.Object
↳ | com.google.android.gms.vision.text.Element

## Class Overview

Roughly equivalent to a space-separated "word" in most Latin languages, or a character in others. For instance, if a word is split between two lines by a hyphen, each part is encoded as a separate Element.

## Summary

Public Methods
Rect | getBoundingBox() Axis-aligned bounding box containing the text.
List<? extends Text> | getComponents() Smaller components that comprise this entity, if any.
Point[] | getCornerPoints() Four corner points in clockwise direction starting with top-left.
String | getLanguage()
String | getValue() Retrieve the recognized text as a string.

[Expand] Inherited Methods
From class java.lang.Object
Object | clone()
boolean | equals(Object arg0)
void | finalize()
final Class<?> | getClass()
int | hashCode()
final void | notify()
final void | notifyAll()
String | toString()
final void | wait(long arg0, int arg1)
final void | wait(long arg0)
final void | wait()
From interface com.google.android.gms.vision.text.Text
abstract Rect | getBoundingBox() Axis-aligned bounding box containing the text.
abstract List<? extends Text> | getComponents() Smaller components that comprise this entity, if any.
abstract Point[] | getCornerPoints() Four corner points in clockwise direction starting with top-left.
abstract String | getValue() Retrieve the recognized text as a string.

## Public Methods

#### public Rect getBoundingBox ()

Axis-aligned bounding box containing the text. The bounding box may extend past the image boundary.

#### public List<? extends Text> getComponents ()

Smaller components that comprise this entity, if any. If this entity is an atom, an empty list is returned. `TextBlock` is at the top of the Text hierarchy. `TextBlock` contains `Line` objects, which contains `Element`s. `Element`s are atoms. We may decide to add character-level objects in later versions. For example, a client could draw bounding boxes for recognized text in different colors for paragraphs, lines, words, and alphabets by repeatedly traversing down the tree with this method.

#### public Point[] getCornerPoints ()

Four corner points in clockwise direction starting with top-left. Due to the possible perspective distortions, this is not necessarily a rectangle. Parts of the region could be outside of the image.

#### public String getLanguage ()

#### public String getValue ()

Retrieve the recognized text as a string. Returned in reading order for the language. For Latin, this is top to bottom within a TextBlock, and left-to-right within Lines.