---
title: CIDetectorTypeText
framework: coreimage
role: symbol
role_heading: Global Variable
path: coreimage/cidetectortypetext
---

# CIDetectorTypeText

A detector that searches for text in a still image or video, returning CITextFeature objects that provide information about detected regions.

## Declaration

```swift
let CIDetectorTypeText: String
```

## Discussion

Discussion The text detector finds areas that are likely to contain upright text, but does not perform optical character recognition.

## See Also

### Constants

- [CIDetectorTypeFace](coreimage/cidetectortypeface.md)
- [CIDetectorTypeRectangle](coreimage/cidetectortyperectangle.md)
- [CIDetectorTypeQRCode](coreimage/cidetectortypeqrcode.md)