best OCR (Optical character recognition) example in android

android ocr tesseract
Komal picture Komal · Oct 23, 2013 · Viewed 119.8k times · Source

I want a running example of OCR in android, I have done some research and find an example that implements OCR in android.

https://github.com/rmtheis/tess-two and in it there are three projects files...

  1. eyes-two
  2. tess-two
  3. tess-two-test

I have executed the "tess-two-test" project by importing the three project files but "tess-two-test" does not include any activities so it will not run.

Can anybody suggest me a better example?

Answer

Panchal Amit picture Panchal Amit · Oct 23, 2013

Like you I also faced many problems implementing OCR in Android, but after much Googling I found the solution, and it surely is the best example of OCR.

Let me explain using step-by-step guidance.

First, download the source code from https://github.com/rmtheis/tess-two.

Import all three projects. After importing you will get an error. To solve the error you have to create a res folder in the tess-two project

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First, just create res folder in tess-two by tess-two->RightClick->new Folder->Name it "res"

After doing this in all three project the error should be gone.

Now download the source code from https://github.com/rmtheis/android-ocr, here you will get best example.

Now you just need to import it into your workspace, but first you have to download android-ndk from this site:

http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html i have windows 7 - 32 bit PC so I have download http://dl.google.com/android/ndk/android-ndk-r9-windows-x86.zip this file

Now extract it suppose I have extract it into E:\Software\android-ndk-r9 so I will set this path on Environment Variable

Right Click on MyComputer->Property->Advance-System-Settings->Advance->Environment Variable-> find PATH on second below Box and set like path like below picture

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done it

Now open cmd and go to on D:\Android Workspace\tess-two like below

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If you have successfully set up environment variable of NDK then just type ndk-build just like above picture than enter you will not get any kind of error and all file will be compiled successfully:

Now download other source code also from https://github.com/rmtheis/tess-two , and extract and import it and give it name OCRTest, like in my PC which is in D:\Android Workspace\OCRTest

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Import test-two in this and run OCRTest and run it; you will get the best example of OCR.

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