Text Detection

Good day everyone. We are creating a chemistry app using Vuforia and Unity3D, and one of the requirements we have is to enable text detection and use it as if it was an image target. We have tried using an image of a text but, as you may have guessed, it failed. We are also aware that Vuforia came with text detection, but it has now been deprecated. Is there any way to do text detection? We are also open for alternatives. Thank you!