C/C++/Objective-C text recognition library

c++ c objective-c text-recognition
Andy White picture Andy White · Nov 8, 2009 · Viewed 42.8k times · Source

Does anyone know of any free/open-source text recognition libraries in C/C++/Objective-C? Basically something that can scan an image, and read out all of the plain text.

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rxin picture rxin · Nov 8, 2009

The most famous one is Tesseract OCR developed initially by Motorola and later become open source. It is also promoted by Google.

There are a few more, perhaps not as famous as Tesseract: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCRopus http://jocr.sourceforge.net/

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