Android OCR Library

android image-processing ocr
Noah picture Noah · Jan 29, 2011 · Viewed 72.4k times · Source

Does anyone know any available libraries or sample codes that can be used to develop an app that reads the text in an image captured by the camera? Something similar to Google Goggles but only for reading text.

Answer

Lior picture Lior · Jan 29, 2011

  1. Look at ABBYY's Android OCR lib (paid)

  2. Tesseract JNI wrapper (free)

  3. Look at this stackoverflow post

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