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Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet

By : Koichi Tsuji, Suvrutt Gurjar, Takuya Miyai
Book Image

Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet

By: Koichi Tsuji, Suvrutt Gurjar, Takuya Miyai

Overview of this book

Many citizen developers regularly use spreadsheets in their business and day-to-day jobs. With AppSheet, you can take your spreadsheets to the next level by enhancing their ease of use. The platform allows you to run your business efficiently and manage it in the field outside of an office or indoor environment. This book enables you to create your own simple or medium to complex hybrid apps for business or personal use. As a beginner to AppSheet, this book will show you how the AppSheet Editor works and how it is used to configure, test, and deploy an app and share it with others as users or co-authors. You’ll learn about widely used features such as how to use data sources, create app views and actions, construct expressions with AppSheet functions, and make your app secure through security and UX options. Next, you’ll create email/attachment templates and develop reports/documents based on templates, store in the cloud, and send files through emails. You’ll also understand how to integrate third-party services and monitor various usage statistics of your app. As you progress, you’ll explore various features with the help of sample apps that you create using the book. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to make the most of AppSheet to build powerful and efficient applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Introduction and Getting Started
3
Part 2 – App Editor and Main Features
10
Part 3 – Advanced Features and External Services
14
Part 4 – App Templates and Tricks for App Building

What are AppSheet OCR models?

AppSheet OCR performs text data scraping out of an image that contains text or handwritten values. With this feature, you can speed up the data entry process. The user takes or uploads an image to the app and the OCR model then extracts the text from the image. It then pushes the data to the target column inside the form view.

In a nutshell, OCR is a powerful feature to effectively process structured data without typing text into the input fields, which, in turn, does not require user intervention.

What types of images are scannable by OCR?

AppSheet’s OCR feature can be used when you need to scan multiple documents that all have a fixed layout. The images may contain either printed text or handwriting. For example, a standardized paper of batches of names for a conference or UPS shipping labels could be scannable by AppSheet OCR.

However, please keep in mind that OCR is not capable of scraping text data out of complex formats, such as...