Google Vision API: OCR of non-language text

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I'd like to write android application for text recognition in images from camera. However, text to be recognized does not consist of regular words, it's just a sequence of letters, digits, slashes, etc. Is it still possible to use Google Vision API for this task? Or should I look for some other tools? I have read about tessaract library, but Google Vision seems to be easier for beginner developer. Would it give significant boost in accuracy of recognition?

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I can confirm that at least the sample OCR reader that google supplies can read non-language text strings. I have been using it to read VIN numbers, for instance.