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The document describes the google_mlkit_entity_extraction Flutter package, which allows developers to utilize Google's ML Kit Entity Extraction API to recognize entities in static text for iOS and Android applications. It highlights the plugin's compatibility with Dart 3, installation requirements, and usage instructions, including the need to manage language models. The plugin acts as a bridge between Flutter apps and native APIs, with no machine learning processing done in Dart, and encourages users to report issues to Google if they arise.

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Google - Mlkit - Entity - Extraction - Flutter Package

The document describes the google_mlkit_entity_extraction Flutter package, which allows developers to utilize Google's ML Kit Entity Extraction API to recognize entities in static text for iOS and Android applications. It highlights the plugin's compatibility with Dart 3, installation requirements, and usage instructions, including the need to manage language models. The plugin acts as a bridge between Flutter apps and native APIs, with no machine learning processing done in Dart, and encourages users to report issues to Google if they arise.

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A Flutter plugin to use Google's ML Kit Entity Extractor API to
recognize specific entities within static text.
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PLEASE READ THIS before continuing or posting a new issue:
A Flutter plugin to use
Google's ML Kit was build only for mobile platforms: iOS Google's ML Kit Entity
and Android apps. Web or any other platform is not Extractor API to recognize
specific entities within
supported, you can request support for those platform to static text.
Google in their repo.
Homepage
This plugin is not sponsored or maintained by Google. The Repository (GitHub)
authors are developers excited about Machine Learning
that wanted to expose Google's native APIs to Flutter.
Documentation
Google's ML Kit APIs are only developed natively for iOS API reference
and Android. This plugin uses Flutter Platform Channels as
explained here.
License
Messages are passed between the client (the app/plugin) MIT (license)
and host (platform) using platform channels as illustrated
in this diagram: Dependencies

flutter,
google_mlkit_commons

More

Packages that depend on


google_mlkit_entity_extra
ction

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Messages and responses are passed asynchronously, to


ensure the user interface remains responsive. To read
more about platform channels go here.

Because this plugin uses platform channels, no Machine


Learning processing is done in Flutter/Dart, all the calls are
passed to the native platform using MethodChannel in
Android and FlutterMethodChannel in iOS, and executed
using Google's native APIs. Think of this plugin as a bridge
between your app and Google's native ML Kit APIs. This
plugin only passes the call to the native API and the
processing is done by Google's API. It is important that you
understand this concept when it comes to debugging
errors for your ML model and/or app.

Since the plugin uses platform channels, you may


encounter issues with the native API. Before submitting a
new issue, identify the source of the issue. You can run
both iOS and/or Android native example apps by Google
and make sure that the issue is not reproducible with their
native examples. If you can reproduce the issue in their
apps then report the issue to Google. The authors do not
have access to the source code of their native APIs, so you
need to report the issue to them. If you find that their
example apps are okay and still you have an issue using
this plugin, then look at our closed and open issues. If you
cannot find anything that can help you then report the
issue and provide enough details. Be patient, someone
from the community will eventually help you.

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Requirements

iOS
Minimum iOS Deployment Target: 15.5.0
Xcode 15.3.0 or newer
Swift 5
ML Kit does not support 32-bit architectures (i386 and
armv7). ML Kit does support 64-bit architectures (x86_64
and arm64). Check this list to see if your device has the
required device capabilities. More info here.

Since ML Kit does not support 32-bit architectures (i386 and


armv7), you need to exclude armv7 architectures in Xcode in
order to run flutter build ios or flutter build ipa . More
info here.

Go to Project > Runner > Building Settings > Excluded


Architectures > Any SDK > armv7

Your Podfile should look like this:

platform :ios, '15.5.0' # or newer version

...

# add this line:


$iOSVersion = '15.5.0' # or newer version

post install do |installer|


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post_ sta do | sta e |
# add these lines:
installer.pods_project.build_configurations.each do
config.build_settings["EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=*]"] =
config.build_settings['IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
end

installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
flutter_additional_ios_build_settings(target)

# add these lines:


target.build_configurations.each do |config|
if Gem::Version.new($iOSVersion) > Gem::Version
config.build_settings['IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TA
end
end

end
end

Notice that the minimum IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is


15.5.0, you can set it to something newer but not older.

Android
minSdkVersion: 21
targetSdkVersion: 33
compileSdkVersion: 34

Supported languages
Entity extraction supports the following languages:

Arabic
Portuguese
English (US, UK)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
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Russian
Chinese (Simplified, Traditional)
Spanish
Thai
Turkish

Usage

Entity Extraction

Create an instance of EntityExtractor

final entityExtractor = EntityExtractor(language: Ent

Process text

final List<EntityAnnotation> annotations = await enti

for (final annotation in annotations) {


annotation.start;
annotation.end;
annotation.text;
for (final entity in annotation.entities) {
entity.type;
entity.rawValue;
}
}

Make sure you download the language model before


annotating any text.

Release resources with close()

entityExtractor.close();

Managing remote models

Create an instance of model manager


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Create an instance of model manager

final modelManager = EntityExtractorModelManager();

Check if model is downloaded

final bool response = await modelManager.isModelDownl

Download model

final bool response = await modelManager.downloadMode

Delete model

final bool response = await modelManager.deleteModel(

Example app

Find the example app here.

Contributing
Contributions are welcome. In case of any problems look at
existing issues, if you cannot find anything related to your
problem then open an issue. Create an issue before opening a
pull request for non trivial fixes. In case of trivial fixes open a
pull request directly.

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