Simple OCR app using android camera [duplicate]

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android OCR?

I want yo build an app that have an OCR scanner using camera and detect a text from a paper and convert in into regular text. a simple program. How i can do this? What is the simplest way?

Answer 1

There was a time when this seemed like a bad idea, but doesnt seem like a bad idea. I guess u can use Tesseract OCR Tool, an open source alternative by Google. How to integrate that in Android is simple via Tesseract Android Tools

A good guide on how to do it is also well documented at http://rmtheis.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/using-tesseract-tools-for-android-to-create-a-basic-ocr-app/

Let us also know how this goes for you.