Tuesday, June 21, 2011

[android-developers] Re: recognize text in images on opening the camera

Doesn't the Goggles application do that aswell?

On 21 jun, 14:56, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> Converting images to text is called OCR. There are no APIs in Android for OCR.
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> You are welcome to attempt to find a working OCR solution -- the only
> one I can think of that works well (ABBYY) is probably more expensive
> than you can afford. There have been attempts to port open source OCR
> engines to Android (e.g., Tesseract), but I was under the impression
> that recognition quality was not that good.
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> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Sapna Srivastav <sapna.ari...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone
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> > I need some help to recognize text in image when a user opens his/her
> > camera then the application can detect the text in the image and show
> > it in an edit text.
> > Please suggest me which APIs or classes are used for developing this
> > kind of application and also is there any example/tutorial available
> > on net then please provide this also.
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> > Thanks and Regards
> > Sapna Srivastav
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